Rhonda Lieberman on the Other American Princess - Artforum International
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,...