Gabrielle Schwarz

London

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writing, editing, etc. Contact: [email protected]

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Articles

Anna Perach Brings Monstrous Women to Life in Tufted Textiles

1 month ago | artsy.net | Gabrielle Schwarz

In E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story “The Sandman” (1817), a gothic tale of psychological unraveling, a young man called Nathaniel is haunted by visions of a nightmarish character who steals children’s eyes. Nathaniel, believing the Sandman has murdered his father, becomes unable to distinguish fantasy from reality, eventually falling in love with a mechanical doll named Olympia. When he sees Olympia torn apart by her creators, her eyes strewn on the ground, he has a complete breakdown.
The artists who built a love for the ages

2 months ago | apollo-magazine.com | Gabrielle Schwarz

Artists often fall in love with and marry other artists. But what’s it like when one half of the couple is widely acclaimed for their contributions to their field while the other has never quite ‘made it’? There’s a scene in the documentary Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other – a portrait of the marriage between Joel Meyerowitz, who pioneered the use of colour in street photography, and Maggie Barrett, a writer and artist with a much shorter CV – that shows how awkward things can get.
‘It never happened - but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Gabrielle Schwarz |Jonathan Freedland

“Pictures or it didn’t happen.” So runs the immediate social media retort to any claim deemed too extraordinary to be true. Carried within it is an assumption shared across the globe which has held firm almost since the invention of the camera: that the ultimate form of proof is the photograph. The idea is so strongly fixed in the human mind, it has acquired the status of a law of nature, one obvious even to a child: the camera never lies.
High tech before big tech

Feb 21, 2025 | apollo-magazine.com | Gabrielle Schwarz

High tech before big tech – ‘Electric Dreams’ at Tate Modern, reviewed THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY AARON #1 Drawing (1979; detail), Harold Cohen. Photo: courtesy Harold Cohen Trust; © the artist
Resistance: Steve McQueen’s show is too beautiful for such a dangerous subject

Feb 20, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Gabrielle Schwarz

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Resistance: Steve McQueen’s show is too beautiful for such a dangerous subject

Feb 20, 2025 | yahoo.com | Gabrielle Schwarz

OpinionResistance: Steve McQueen’s show is too beautiful for such a dangerous subjectFri, February 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM UTCA demonstrator is taken away under arrest by police officers after a mounted baton charge, in East London, on Oct.
Resistance: Steve McQueen’s show is too beautiful for such a dangerous subject

Feb 20, 2025 | 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.
A biting satire of the art world’s glamour, pomp and greed

Feb 16, 2025 | 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.
Turner: In Light and Shade: Luminous proof that printing is a genuine art form

Feb 6, 2025 | 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.
Strange, surreal and sexy: 31 images that changed the way we see our bodies

Feb 1, 2025 | 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.