The Female Gaze Is Not A New Idea (A Love Letter To Paul Rosano)

An exhibition gets an art historian thinking about artist Sylvia Sleigh’s work – and wondering about her model, Paul Rosano. “Maybe this is the crux of the condition of what Laura Mulvey famously called ‘to-be-looked-at-ness.’ We’re not supposed to wonder about the object of desire, we’re simply only to desire.”