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A diamond shaped painting containing a circle with two rings of text surrounding an image of a topless Marilyn Monroe against a star

The year’s must-see exhibition has landed, and it’s even better than we hoped. Rewriting the narrative around the much-mythologised starlet, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait returns the model’s self-made power, and reminds us of the woman behind the iconography.

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A diamond shaped painting containing a circle with two rings of text surrounding an image of a topless Marilyn Monroe against a star

The Metamorphosis of Norma Jean Mortenson, 1967. 

Photo: Courtesy of the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Artwork: © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY