In the resort town of Palm Springs, California, it isn’t politics dividing the city. It’s a 26 foot tall, 17 ton statue of Marilyn Monroe. Depending on who you ask, the massive replica of the 1950’s ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article incorrectly listed the step that Palm Springs ... stage for the city to allow the 26-foot statue of Marilyn Monroe to permanently ...

Picture this: Actress Marilyn ... not a Palm Springs Public Art Commission project, but a private collaboration between Cerney and the site owner, Jim Landé, which went through the city's Land ...

For those hoping to snap a selfie of "Forever Marilyn" before she ... statue would help promote the city around the world. Monroe is strongly associated with Palm Springs, having been a regular ...

Monroe’s connection to Palm Springs ... avoid having the city garage serve as a backdrop for the thousands of photographs taken of the statue annually. The post ‘Forever Marilyn’ statue ...

Photograph by Yasara Gunawardena It’s a sleepy Sunday morning in the Californian desert city of Palm Springs and the ... racks of glamorous silk kaftans and prints of Marilyn Monroe, another star who ...