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...Stockings have complex associations, from the sexual to the sinister, worn by Mrs Robinson in The Graduate and also by movie bank robbers....
...She also placed great emphasis on Monroe’s relationship with Charlie Chaplin Jr and Edward G Robinson Jr, who both became her lovers....
...Lehmann Maupin will open with a Marilyn Minter show, followed by an exhibition of its latest charge, Chantal Joffe, whom the gallery now represents in Asia (she continues to work with Victoria Miro elsewhere...
...Robinson, big gangster star of Warner Bros in the 1930s, plays a mid-life-crisis dupe who (I can hardly blame him) falls for shockingly gorgeous, morality-free Joan Bennett....
...He also devises a series of Heath Robinson machines, culminating in an elaborate display of live pancake-making that drew gasps of delight from the 10-year-old in front of me....
...“We knew we had to do something spectacular to compete in the dynamic scene that is London,” says Polly Robinson Gaer, who will be running Ropac’s UK space....
...Since his arrival, the prime minister’s residence has undergone a makeover and is now covered in lurid pop-art pieces, with Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso leering down from the walls....
...Andy Warhol’s White Marilyn (1962), meanwhile, went for $41m. Christie’s boss Mr Murphy dismissed the idea that a bubble was developing in the market....
...Star when she was strutting her stuff in strip clubs and pornographic films such as Marilyn Whips Wallstreet and Marilyn Does Miami....
...The ostensible subject is near-parodic – an emaciated girl in a Rio slum tries to make like Marilyn Monroe. But Lispector was a fierce and singular talent....
...Jancis Robinson....
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