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The artists using dolls to explore queer history, death and desire

Dazed & Confused Magazine | Fashion, Art, Music, Film, Ideas | … May 28, 2026
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The exhibition’s title, You’re only happy when you can see something die!, is borrowed from a line Marilyn Monroe throws at Clark Gable in The Misfits (1961), her final completed role. In the scene, she watches cowboys rope wild mustangs for slaughter, delivering the line with fury at men who only seem to feel alive when killing something beautiful. It lands, in part, because it is Monroehellip;

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