The face of a Barbie doll from the 1970s. Credit: © National Museum Of Denmark An old PVC doll, showing signs of degradation on her face and hands. Her dress (now ...

It was an extraordinary corporate pledge — a promise that not only fit the zeitgeist of an increasingly climate-anxious society, but also sought to reconcile pent-up guilt over mounting plastic waste.

A new collection of Barbie dolls is made out of plastic that was bound for the ocean. On Thursday, the toy company Mattel launched "Barbie Loves the Ocean," its first collection of Barbies with bodies ...

Lil Gretch, meet Lil Daryl Hannah. But Hannah's doll was part of a campaign that got attention for another reason: It was part of a hoax. A social media fake claimed that Mattel toys would become ...

Though it may be hard to imagine an artist needing a change in direction at just 23 years old, Chinese-born multimedia artist Ran Zhou says this was very much the case when she came to Brooklyn ...

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Earlier this year, a decades-old doll broke the internet. When posters for Greta Gerwig's upcoming "Barbie" film hit Twitter, fans fawned over the bright plastic-y imagery and the satirical spin.