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  • Galerie Ron Mandos has asked $45,000 for Daniel Arsham's "Sculpture," a ghostly peekaboo installation in which a standing mannequin's head and torso is shrouded beneath a white, undulating sheet of plaster "canvas" billowing out from a nearby wall.

    At Armory, Fast Food, 3-D And Some New Big Guns Kelly Crow 2011

  • The missing limbs and head of the unrestored, Roman "Torso of a Draped Female" seem utterly dispensable when the sculpture is seen in the company of "The Poet's Anguish" 1914-15, one of many enigmatic paintings in which de Chirico crowns an armless classical statue with a metaphysical mannequin's head.

    A Dialogue Across Centuries Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

  • While the Telegraph takes the monarch at her word, adding, "It appeared the mannequin's lack of a head may have perturbed the Queen," Us Weekly says she was just joking, explaining, "The Queen, 85, showed where her grandson William, 29, got his wicked sense of humor."

    Queen Elizabeth II Calls Royal Wedding Dress Exhibit 'Horrid' (PHOTOS) 2011

  • BLOWN AWAY: A mannequin's head exploded during a fireworks demonstration by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington Tuesday.

    Pictures of the Day: June 29 2010

  • The manager's back belongs to a stooped old woman whose skin sags as she arranges a necklace around a mannequin's neck.

    Westfield Amy B 2010

  • Wikipedia lists two urban myths associated with the mannequin's distinctive face: (1) Annie's face is modeled on the death mask of a young woman who drowned in the Seine River in the 1880s; (2) She's the deceased daughter of the doctor who invented her.

    Rescue Annie & Me | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

  • I love how formal and arranged the mess looks: the mannequin with green trousers, the stain on the floor that goes up the wall, the way the spots on the curtain seem to have a symbiotic relationship with the paintball splatter on the mannequin's jacket.

    Photographer Lynne Cohen's best shot 2010

  • You should make a hat out of it, and put on a mannequin's head or something : Maybe pimp the head with speakers playing music where the ears should be.

    Fluid Sculpture on Vimeo 2010

  • Erin Wasson debuting an amazing freshman collection which featured fellow mannequin's Lily Donaldson and Chanel Iman on the catwalk.

    Zandile Blay: Fashion Week Weekend Round Up: Karaoke, Courtney Love and Oil Rich Africans 2009

  • CBS blurred out the now-nude mannequin's butt cleavage and crotch bulge, thus sparing the blank eyes of child mannequins from not-seeing - what?

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Dumb Luck 2009

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