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The agony, ecstasy and self-made genius of Marilyn Monroe

4/5 This exhibition is a must-visit, refreshing once again the discourse around Marilyn Monroe

Evening Standard

The secrets that the Marilyn Monroe pictures don’t tell us

ART: The National Portrait Gallery’s highly anticipated Marilyn exhibition – in celebration of what would have been her 100th birthday – is full of striking, evocative magic. But when it comes to one of history’s most photographed and most misunderstood women, it leaves us with more questions than answers, writes…

The Independent UK

The week in TV: Get Millie Black; With Love, Meghan; A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story; Towards Zero – review

Tamara Lawrance excels in Marlon James’s classy Caribbean crime drama; the Duchess of Sussex tilts at lifestyle greatness; and a moving drama puts the case for Ruth Ellis. Plus, murder most racy in the BBC’s new Agatha Christie

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TV tonight: pop art pioneer Pauline Boty gets the documentary she deserves

Peter Blake, Jim Moir and more celebrate the late artist’s genius. Plus: Norma Percy’s masterly series on Israel and Palestine continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama’s Story of Us review – not a good look for a noted professor

This cultural history of the British people is a vague, subjective take that lurches into the reactionary when it tackles social media. It’s a far cry from being a ‘major’ series

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on women in art: a cycle of here today, gone tomorrow must be halted

Editorial: Nan Goldin’s top spot on an art world power list concludes a strong year for female creators. But beware complacency about their recognition

The Guardian - UK

Warhol on Beuys, Pauline Boty’s swinging 60s and jugs in abundance – the week in art

Warhol captures his friend with icy darkness, Bruce McLean chooses pottery over provocation and a contemporary gem on the north Wales coast

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We’re laughing at Nigel Farage, not with him

His appearance on I’m a Celebrity… shouldn’t worry us. It’s humiliating him

The Guardian - UK

‘Bold, outrageous’: forgotten star of swinging 60s pop art finally gets solo show

Before she died aged 28, Pauline Boty’s work brought a female gaze to the London art scene. Now she is set to reach a new generation

The Guardian - UK

‘Pauline Boty: British Pop Art’s Sole Sister’ chronicles the artist’s life

Marc Kristal’s new biography of artist Pauline Boty brings an era to life in its celebration of her tragically short but highly influential career

Wallpaper

Pop art fans put up their own blue plaque to pioneering painter after English Heritage snub

Devoted fans of a pioneering female pop artist are putting up their own blue plaque in her memory after being snubbed by English Heritage.

Evening Standard

How Tate Britain overhauled 500 years of art history with its first rehang in a decade

The most comprehensive collection of British art in the world is having a reshuffle. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson tells Eloise Hendy about how the gallery’s ‘interventions’ will expand and diversify the canon

The Independent UK

Tragic forgotten star of 1960s art scene finds new generation of fans

Hailed as a star of London’s swinging sixties art scene, Pauline Boty rubbed shoulders with Bob Dylan and Peter Blake before her death aged 28. Now a forthcoming film and a recent record-breaking sale suggests the tragic painter is finally getting the recognition she deserves

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