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...Wauters was a former professional footballer, who had represented Belgium and befriended Marilyn Monroe while playing in the US in the 1950s....
...This is something which Marilyn Richardson is now reckoning with....
...A few crowd-drawing perennials — Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, for instance — never budge, but periodically one Rauschenberg displaces another, or a whole flock of...
...DH Lawrence, Henry Miller, James Joyce, Rabelais, Henry Fielding, Anaïs Nin, Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Marie Stopes, Betty Dodson, Carl Jung, Marilyn French and Germaine Greer....
...Who can forget Marilyn Monroe, looking demure and chic in a black turtleneck and white trousers, curled up on her sofa for a Life magazine shoot in 1953?...
...And with the emphasis on “clean” beauty and glowy dewy skin taking over the beauty world, I’d also forgotten how useful a lip product can be when it comes to looking polished....
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...The headmaster at my sons’ new school told me I’d never move back…” she smiles....
...Although “Dear Zoë” is a new work — and how nice to see an artist d’un certain age prove that he’s better than ever — its genius for critiquing gendered and racialised capitalism lies in his choice to look...
...Christie’s accomplished their goal of selling the Marilyn for as much as possible. Even if it didn’t go for quite as high as they’d hoped....
...Blue spheres of musical notes float up from his saxophone on to Warhol’s gold ground, reminiscent of his golden “Marilyn”s....
...Who was that brown-haired person I’d spent a decade masquerading as? Growing up, the social conditionings were plentiful. Blondes have more fun. Gentlemen prefer them....
...Christie’s has set ambitions high for Andy Warhol’s signature square silkscreen, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964)....
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...“But I’d be lying if I said some wealthy investors didn’t occasionally dip into their portfolio.” madison.darbyshire@ft.com...
...I’d rather hear about other people’s nematodes on Gardeners’ Question Time....
...But I’d still struggle to explain what this selection of artists really tells us....
...And her father, Tony Curtis, was in Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe and The Sweet Smell of Success, and many other great films....
...This spring, the Brighton Museum staged a full retrospective of the 96-year-old US-born photographer Marilyn Stafford – her most comprehensive yet....
...“Yes, they might have a d-flawless 8.7-carat diamond, but many of these pieces you can wear all the time if you wanted to. They should be worn as much as possible — especially now.”...
...Serge thought I was just fine, contrary to what I’d understood from John.” The British never really got Gainsbourg, I suggest. “No,” she agrees....
...“I’d maybe do a big Broadway show. But I’ve been enjoying living in Palm Springs quietly since the pandemic — it’s like Disneyland on crack.”...
...My final guests, John F Kennedy, 35th president of the US, and his rumoured lover, the actress Marilyn Monroe, have joined us. Prince Charles pours more Krug....
...(I also recommend the Magnum Square Print sales for picking up a winner – they recently sold a set of Eve Arnold portraits of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits that are decidedly iconic and, at $100...
...She set the bar for aquatics style – so much so that an entire contemporary bikini and bathing costume range is named after her (there’s even a gold version for those who’d like to go the full mermaid)....
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