Long before murmurings of a “Mattel Cinematic Universe,” Artforum columnist Rhonda Lieberman dreamed up a parallel world inhabited by “Jewish Barbie,” the repressed twin of beloved American doll Barbara Millicent Roberts. “Split off from Barbie at the moment of her creation, Jewish Barbie fractioned off, became her own reality, and just went on from there forever, like the unconscious,” Lieberman writes in her two-part reverie, which features, among much else, a musical called Katz, Deleuzian nomadism, and the real-life Barbie Liberation Organization (google it). Needless to say, Jewish Barbie’s
The Exhibitions, One in Vienna and One in Amsterdam, Portray the Misunderstandings non-Jews Hold About Jews – and How Jews Might Misunderstand Themselves. While Some Find Them Hurtful or Unsettling, Others Have Had a Joyful, Deeply Rewarding Experience