Protesters opposing the installation of a Marilyn Monroe sculpture on a site next to the Palm Springs Art Museum Helene Verin
It’s hard to find a single person in the Palm Springs art and design community who supports the city’s decision to install an enormous, voluptuous sculpture of Marilyn Monroe, showing her skirt flying up and underwear exposed, on a public site right next to the Palm Springs Art Museum. And several dozens of those dismayed by the sculpture, its pending placement or both gathered today near the California museum to protest.
“This artwork is misogyny in the guise of nostalgia,” says Elizabeth Armstrong, who was the museum’s director from 2014 to 2018 and was among those who spoke at the rally.” It’s an out-of-date fantasy or delusion of a few men who remember the good old days in Hollywood–those were not good days for women.”