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...But Drive-Away Dolls never knows how to be the kind of fun it wants to be. A cue has been taken from transgressive cult classics, not least the taboo-busting early films of John Waters....
...His Brassaï-influenced depiction of characters from “the underbelly of Paris” in corsets and eerie porcelain doll make-up broke the internet, triggering tears and ecstatic reviews....
...His most recent couture show for Maison Margiela, where he is now creative director, has obsessed TikTok for weeks with its broken doll poses....
...be properly classified under the Dolls subheading....
...Barbie is a story of a cheerful doll plunging into “a full-on existential crisis” but trademarks are infinitely renewable. So far, Barbie is too. john.gapper@ft.com...
...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...Robbie, who made headlines after being snubbed in the acting category, dropped the dress-like-the-doll approach from earlier in the awards season and instead wore black....
...Anna Weyant at Gagosian, Paris The 28-year-old Canadian artist has been making headlines with her eerily beautiful paintings that recall the works of John Currin and Dutch Old Masters – seen through a feminine...
...Frankenstein itself is structured like a Russian doll....
...“Angels, like dolls in general, are symbols of beauty for children....
...Radical architectural drawings are smuggled in beside dolls’ houses....
...John Derian agrees: “It’s a fun way to express yourself. They become heirlooms.”...
...A fixture of Netflix’s hit show Russian Doll, Lee initially sent in a taped audition....
...A reddish diptych, “Untitled” (1988), depicts an armless clay doll and an African mask, while a sculptural cone, cube and sphere beside the paintings reference Cubist forms....
...People familiar with the structures claim parallel sets of books at the fund provider and a Russian doll of companies and funds masked their stakebuilding. “Two sets of accounts were done....
...consisted of two collections, “Putin’s Big Parade” and “The (Un)Civil War”, examining global empire and race relations through the lens of absurdist iconography: plaster death masks for the abolitionist John...
...Theatre (Lyttelton), London There are fireworks and fights aplenty in The Motive and the Cue, but the image that lingers from Jack Thorne’s brilliant, compassionate new play is of two household names, John...
...Mattel has been enjoying a bumper summer on the back of Barbenheimer movie mania driving interest in its famous female doll. But what about other toymakers?...
...boardroom of Waystar Royco for Broadway, starring alongside Michael Imperioli (White Lotus, The Sopranos) in playwright Amy Herzog’s second Ibsen adaptation following last season’s critically acclaimed A Doll...
...Nicholas Hytner’s scintillating Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre) is still going, as is Daniel Fish’s revisionist Oklahoma!...
...Its warren of rooms feature curse dolls, ancient talismans and – my forever favourite – a mock-up of the “wise woman’s cottage” where “Old Joan” recites spells and charms to passers-by....
...Inside them is kind of a nesting-doll structure of shielding and more cooling power....
...Winter Insomnia announces the volume at the top of one stack, followed by John Updike’s Tossing and Turning....
...In Jonathan Harvey’s telling of the tale, Mother Goose runs an animal sanctuary along with her long-suffering husband Vic (comedian John Bishop, gleefully breaking the fourth wall at every opportunity)....
...One arcade housed a doll’s hospital, I remember. Today, the retail is high-end....
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