Marilyn Monroe: The Original Triple Threat – Exhibitions Celebrate a Creative Pioneer

This summer, two significant exhibitions will re-evaluate the enduring legacy of Marilyn Monroe, marking what has been dubbed “the summer of Marilyn.” Often simplified to a timeless sex symbol or a tragic figure entangled in scandal, these retrospectives aim to reveal a more complex and subversive individual. To commemorate the centenary of her birth, prominent British cultural institutions are honoring Monroe not just as an actress, but as a performer with sharp comic intelligence, a shrewd architect of her own public image, and a woman who fundamentally reshaped the possibilities for female stardom in cinema.