A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...

"Thanks to the impossibility of making this fiction film, which was almost luck, I had to do it with my own means, so I started to create scenes with small figurines based on what Fida had told me ...

Carved out of mammoth ivory, the 40,000-year-old figurine clearly represents a woman, with ballooning breasts and elaborately carved genitalia. The head, arms and legs are merely suggested.