Gabrielle Schwarz

2 months ago | aol.co.uk | Gabrielle Schwarz

At Turner Contemporary in Margate, the artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has conceived an exhibition that charts the history of resistance in Britain through photography. The starting point of Resistance is the suffragettes, whose first “monster” meeting in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908 – “Women’s Sunday” – was at the time the largest protest this country had seen, attended by around 500,000 women.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Gabrielle Schwarz

Novels set in the “art world”, as it’s often called, rarely take their milieu, or any of the people in it, seriously.  More often, the international circuit of artists, dealers and collectors – and, of course, the gatekeeping curators and critics – appears as an object of ridicule: a self-important playground for the absurdly privileged. From first-hand experience, I can confirm that this isn’t entirely unfair.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Gabrielle Schwarz

Prints rarely get as much respect as other kinds of art. Generally, they’re considered an often cheaper way of replicating existing works, not creating new ones. There’s a historical basis for this. The technique of mezzotinting, for instance, was initially used in the mid-17th century to reproduce oil portraits by Old Masters, and later taken up by artists wanting to promote their own work in other mediums.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Davies |Gabrielle Schwarz |Jess Cartner-Morley

There is no image more compelling to us than to see another human being naked. Thouusands of years of evolution and desire, of empathy and curiosity, hardwire us to stare. The sight is visceral, electrifying, irresistible. It is familiar and forbidden; innocence and sin. The naked body is there in the bathroom mirror every morning, but to see another always feels like stumbling on a secret.

Nov 29, 2024 | artsy.net | Gabrielle Schwarz

Joan Snyder’s Body & Soul (1997–98) is one of those paintings that photos don’t quite do justice to. Perhaps it’s to do with how the rectangular canvas is divided into discrete sections, all teeming with texture and exuberant detail, defying you to flatten them into a single image.