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...Next week we speak with the playwright Michael R Jackson, who wrote the wildly acclaimed Broadway musical Strange Loop. It won a Pulitzer in 2020, and it just recently won the Tony for Best Musical....
...One of Lloyd’s recent podcast guests was James Runcie, whose memoir, Tell Me Good Things, recounts losing his wife of 35 years, the drama director Marilyn Imrie....
...Paintings by Agnes Martin and Philip Guston sold for more than double their midpoint estimates, with a new record set for Martin as well as Jackson Pollock, Robert Irwin and Michael Heizer, according to...
...It was somewhat incongruous given the enthusiasm seen minutes earlier that helped set records for artists like Jackson Pollock....
...Here is a world of teddy boys and retro swing dresses, with the Marschallin as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike and Baron Ochs a faded, prewar Lothario sporting ginger hair and a garish tartan suit....
...This was a trend that began in earnest in 2019, with documentaries including Channel 4 and HBO’s Leaving Neverland, about two men who claim they were abused as children by Michael Jackson, who died aged...
...They met Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollock, and in 1950 had shown American and European painters such as Jean Dubuffet and Mark Rothko....
...Lawrence Jackson, professor of English and history at Johns Hopkins, says: “Hughes introduces the complete panorama of black labour in the creation of opulence. Digging the foundations, the grunt work....
...The works of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko fetishised authenticity, the direct translation of emotion into paint....
...So does a less familiar Marilyn diptych made within weeks of her death in 1962, consisting of twin circles, one stamped with her face, the other blank....
...He’d scored a platinum album and made a hit movie with Janet Jackson already that year....
...Three years later, Marilyn Manson gave it the none-too-subtle industrial rock treatment, with Johnny Depp on guitars....
...(NYT) ‘Serial stowaway’ strikes again Marilyn Jean Hartman is infamous....
...Using his growing music industry contacts book, Mr Goldstone quickly moved on from journalism, using a trip with the Band Aid Relief Fund to Ethiopia in 1986 and Michael Jackson’s tour to Australia in 1989...
...“You can make pictures of anything as long as you make them beautiful,” the artist Marilyn Minter has said....
...The Rocky Horror Show spooked theatres, and the sub-genre peaked with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” in 1982, its video packed with funky zombies....
...Gathering trophy works that have not been seen together in six decades — Willem de Kooning’s ferocious “Woman II” from MoMA in New York, Jackson Pollock’s swan song “Blue Poles” from Canberra — the exhibition...
...Many private collectors own great examples: the magazine magnate Si Newhouse has the 1964 “Orange Marilyn” but others would die for “Shot Red Marilyn” (1964), or one of his disaster series....
...First published in 1959 and now reissued, Jump Book catalogues his most glorious examples, from Marilyn Monroe’s impressive bent-knee bounce, to Audrey Hepburn’s smiling — and full-skirted — bound....
...Michael Jackson has topped Forbes’ list of top-earning dead celebrities in four of the five years since his death....
...Marley’s estate brought in $20m in the past year, putting him at number five on Forbes’ annual list of top-earning deceased celebrities – behind Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, but ahead of Marilyn Monroe...
...The property has hosted many famous guests including Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Vonnegut and Terence Stamp....
...Julien’s is selling the estate of William Travilla, Marilyn Monroe’s costume designer, on November 8....
...There are also framed snippets of hair from Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson. My favourite piece is a tiny frame, 3in by 4in....
...Norman Mailer saw fit to call a book Marilyn, and Elton John sang goodbye to “Norma Jean”. Film directors tend not to inspire this kind of personal love....
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