Word: mannequin
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...forget it, is too big to fit in the museum, so it covers the four-story facade of the Galeria Kaufhof on Frankfurt's main shopping drag. Inside, there are some 200 artworks - photos of early 20th century shop fronts by Walker Evans, Eug?ne Atget and Berenice Abbott, surrealist mannequin displays and Fluxus conceptual art reconstructions. The installations are the most eye-catching. For the first time since it was shown in New York in 1964, American Supermarket, a collaboration by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others, has been remade, complete with meat, cheese and fruit counters, neon signs...
...Harvard team doesn’t hear about “ball security” at least a dozen times at every practice, it means somebody has kidnapped Harvard coach Tim Murphy and replaced him with a mannequin. Murphy places so much emphasis on not turning the ball over that I’m surprised he hasn’t yet created the assistant position “Director of Pigskin Security...
...shirts and geegaws galore. At Bloomingdale's, in its 59th Street store and other locations, you will find "Hairspray" boutiques festooned with period clothes, some for full-figured gals. In a Village Voice column, Lynn Yeager noted that there was, "for the first time in memory, a plump mannequin in the window of Bloomie's, with falsies as prominent as Harvey Fierstein...
...before illness and deafness turned him into the stricken, black Goya, haunted by death and disaster, who speaks with such appalled and appalling clarity to our century. The Straw Mannikin, his tapestry design of 1791-92, can be read as a country amusement--four girls tossing a straw-stuffed mannequin of a petimetre, a male dandy dressed in the French fashion, up and down in a blanket. But clearly it is more than that. This doll man flopping bonelessly in the air reflects Goya's sense of the power of women--the civilian version, so to speak, of the dreadful...
...Detonator, fails to distinguish itself from the current glut of angry, amorphous Screamo available to the angst-ridden. Bleachmobile’s music is by no means bad—they are solid musicians and adopt convincing hooks reminiscent of Rodan, power-violence band Charles Bronson and the Bloody Mannequin Orchestra—but little is memorable on their 23 minute opus...