It was the discovery of Hatsune Miku, a fictional Japanese pop star whose voice stems from a Vocaloid, a singing voice synthesizer, during a trip to Japan last year that was the starting point for the ...

After Laurie Simmons made The Love Doll Days/Days 1-36, a series focused on lifelike Japanese dolls photographed in a variety of domestic settings, she realized that she had plenty more to explore. “I ...

Artist **Laurie Simmons’**s latest show is called “Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See,” and it opens tonight at Salon 94. After working on a more human scale in The Love Doll Days/Days 1-36, Simmons, ...

Laurie Simmons’s new show, “Kigurumi, Dollers, and How We See,” portrays women in interior spaces. What distinguishes this new work from her series “The Love Doll: Days 1–30,” however, is the way ...

Laurie Simmons has spent most of her career arranging dolls, painstakingly posing them to bring out whatever je ne sais quoi she’s currently interested in. So you can imagine her excitement when she ...

“Dollers”, as they are called in English, are traditionally men. They are men who wear full bodysuits, frilly dresses, and anime heads. But Miina is no dude. Miina is a female, but just don’t call her ...