Marilyn Monroe
Klimt painting breaks modern art record with $366m sale, but gold toilet ‘America’ gets flushed
After 20 minutes of bidding, the 180-centimetre work by the Austrian master became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction, but a 101-kilogram useable gold loo failed to live up to the hype.
- Michael Koziol
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Breast implants are getting smaller. It’s not a win for body acceptance
While breast augmentations remain among the most popular cosmetic surgery procedures, plastic surgeons report it’s no longer a case of “the bigger, the better”. What is driving the shift, though, is complicated.
- Amber Ferguson and Samantha Chery
Marilyn Monroe did it, so did Chappell Roan – but what is the point of a stage name?
The use of pseudonyms is wide-spread in the entertainment industry. This is why.
- Nell Geraets
Why can’t we get enough of Marilyn Monroe?
A new exhibition of memorabilia that opened this month in Sydney is the latest homage to the iconic sex symbol.
- Cameron Bayley
No wonder the carpet wasn’t red: award show fashion has become beige
Once a highlight of the international fashion calendar, the pre-show preening for the Academy Awards has become as predictable as an episode of Is It Cake?
- Damien Woolnough
Cate Blanchett and the curious case of the fake conductor
How does a filmmaker balance creative licence and the responsibility of accurately telling a story that is billed as factual?
- Andrew Hornery
From Marilyn to Margot Robbie: New exhibition celebrates Hollywood’s pioneering women
Celebrate the female trailblazers who have changed the way women are depicted on screen, from Thelma and Louise to Mae West, at ACMI’s Winter Masterpieces.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Marilyn Monroe’s story is a modern warning for the Instagram generation
During her short life Marilyn Monroe never set foot in Australia, but judging by the huge audiences watching the latest biopic about her, she remains an iconic figure here in 2022 thanks to her quintessentially 20th Century global celebrity.
- Andrew Hornery
How to do your makeup to look like Marilyn Monroe
Kim Kardashian wore her dress to the Met Gala, and now, her life is being brought to the big screen in Blonde. Two make-up artists share how to emulate her look.
- Lauren Ironmonger
More fever dream than biopic: Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn movie will make you squirm
It’s fair to say that Andrew Dominik’s Blonde, a project 14 years in the making, emerges into a very different world from the one in which it was conceived.
- Karl Quinn