Marilyn Monroe by Michelle Morgan6/10/2023 ![]() The crowd’s nonstop chants-both for and against the sculpture-were enough to drown out some of the ceremony’s speakers, reports Jori Finkel for the Art Newspaper.įierce debate has surrounded the statue in the months leading up to its unveiling on Museum Way. ![]() The dedication event for the statue, which is titled Forever Marilyn, drew hundreds of attendees, many of whom came to protest the work’s unveiling. Though the actress smiles as a gust from an underfoot air vent makes her white dress fly up (an homage to a scene in the 1955 comedy The Seven Year Itch), not everyone in the city is happy about her presence. This past weekend, a 26-foot-tall likeness of Marilyn Monroe was installed outside the Palm Springs Art Museum in southern California. ![]()
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