Barry Schwabsky

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Francoise Gilot Was More Than Picasso’s Muse—She Lived Life on Her Own Terms

The artist and author died this past summer at the age of 101.

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  Barry Schwabsky
• Aug 18, 2023 3:05 pm

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Somaya Critchlow’s Provocative Portraits of Nude Black Women Test Perceptions of Female Sexuality

Somaya Critchlow's paintings are part of the new wave of figurative painting that has swept the art world over the last few years.

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  Barry Schwabsky
• Jul 27, 2023 10:00 am

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Painter Leon Polk Smith Turned to Abstraction to Explore Notions of Identity and Race

Leon Polk Smith grew up between cultures—settler and Indigenous—and considered himself to belong to both, or perhaps to neither.

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  Barry Schwabsky
• Jul 17, 2023 2:41 pm

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Illuminations

AMONG THE MOST significant artworks that have come into my life have been a chair, a trash can, a child’s dress. When I look at them as art, I tend to think of them as sculpture. Why do I (sometimes…

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  Barry Schwabsky
• Jan 7, 2012 4:48 pm