Marilyn: Celebrating an American Icon

Overview

In late 2015, after a $10.5 million makeover, the Albury Regional Gallery reopened as the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), with a 14-metre-high curved wall and a visionary director named Jacqui Hemsley, who's passionate about getting people excited and engaged. To that end, MAMA is currently hosting its first blockbuster: Marilyn: Celebrating an American Icon.

The exhibition, which has come via the USA and Brazil, features a survey of more than 100 works by 50 leading contemporary artists who have celebrated Marilyn Monroe over the last two decades. Being the enduring cultural phenomenon she is, the works span both privately and publicly owned paintings, photos and video from artists such as Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson and more. 

As well as the artworks — which will be on display until Sunday, May 8 — MAMA will be hosting a whole heap of events, including lectures, bus tours, drinks and even a Marilyn lookalike competition.

Marilyn: Celebrating an American Icon was organised by Sairally Fine Arts & Consulting, Hamburg, Germany and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.

Image: Cecil Beaton, Marilyn Monroe (1956/2005), Silver gelatin print, © Cecil Beaton Archive / Sothebys.