On my kitchen table stands a 30-centimetre wooden articulated artist’s model, which acts more as a mood board than an aid for drawing. It’s the tiny mass-produced descendant of the handmade artists’ ...

Human beings are extremely unique in their existence on Earth because of their desire to copy and create. Perhaps one of the most interesting examples, of this desire manifested, is the invention and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Mannequins don’t have much to say for themselves. They occupy a peculiar position in our visual landscape, peering ...