Mae West: Dates in Dayton

MAE WEST factors into an exhibit now on display in Ohio at the Dayton Art Institute.
• • The exhibition – – "Marilyn Monroe: Life As a Legend" – – was organized by Antoma in Hamburg, Germany, and is being circulated by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. Curator Laine Snyder has assembled 250 works relating to life of Marilyn Monroe and her continuing effect on artists.
• • An intriguing featured attraction is a Marilyn play. It is a one-woman show "Marilyn: Forever Blonde" starring Sunny Thompson.
• • Promotional copy for the show "Marilyn Monroe: Life As a Legend," now at the Dayton Art Institute through June 24, notes that this exhibit impresses the audience "with the scope of its insights into the iconic Hollywood star of the 1940s and 1950s."
• • In his recent article, "The Undying Marilyn Mystique," journalist Jerry Stein, The Cincinnati Post's arts writer, had something to say about Mae West's influence on Marilyn Monroe - - as expressed in a modern painting.
• • Jerry Stein writes: The pop artist Robert Indiana offers a sunburst of the head and nude torso of Marilyn Monroe at center. Surrounding this image, made in 2001, are the first names of great beauties - Betty (Grable), Rita (Hayworth), Jean (Harlow), Mae (West), etc. Each name is done in a single color. But below the sunburst, the name "Marilyn" is printed in larger type with each letter of her name done in a separate color used for the names of her beautiful predecessors.
• • Stein concludes: "It is as though Robert Indiana is saying with his rainbow coloring of the actress' name, Marilyn Monroe had it all. ..."
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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