The artists using dolls to explore queer history, death and desire
Featuring Greer Lankton, Ki Yoong and more, You’re Only Happy When You Can See Something Die! contemplates devotion, the figure of the doll, and the queer canon
Black News 
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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