‘I felt I was pushing myself’—Monica Lewinsky on why she sat for Marilyn Minter

Monica Lewinsky spills the beans on what sitting for the artist Marilyn Minter is de facto like in a candid tell-all piece in Vainness Truthful. Lewinsky made headlines worldwide within the mid Nineties when she turned caught up in a intercourse scandal with the then President Invoice Clinton, resulting in his impeachment. Minter’s portrait of Lewinsky options in a present at LGDR gallery in New York (till 3 June) which additionally consists of the artist’s depictions of Woman Gaga, the author Roxane Homosexual and, in a meta twist, the artists Glenn Ligon and Mickalene Thomas.

“When Marilyn stated she needed to color me, I used to be flattered…but in addition trepidatious. My relationship to my very own picture is difficult, to say the least,” Lewinsky writes, including: “Marilyn says she selected us all as topics as a result of we’re ‘a metaphor for the occasions we dwell in’. I’m proud to be included on this illustrious group, and I just like the metaphor conceit. It chimes with my perception that, in the course of the Clinton scandal, I turned a social canvas. Anybody may venture their points onto me—and consider me, they did!” On the finish of the piece, Lewinsky says she examined her boundaries by giving up her “portrait virginity” to Minter (go Monica).