INSANE: Pauline boty - The Real Truth

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 · Jun 4

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 · Jun 2

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025

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 · Dec 3, 2023

‘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 · Nov 26, 2023

‘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 · Oct 31, 2023

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 · Jun 30, 2023

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 · May 22, 2023

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

Evening Standard · Aug 17, 2022