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Edith Newhall has been reviewing gallery exhibitions for The Inquirer since April 2005. She is a former staff writer for New York Magazine, where she covered the New York art world in features, exhibition reviews and interviews with artists. Her articles on the arts and travel have also been published in ARTnews, the Washington Post, Travel & Leisure and Condé-Nast Traveler. She is the co-author of "In Artists' Homes" (Clarkson Potter, 1992).
The video installation "1967," by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, is loosely inspired by a Jean-Luc Godard film.
Galleries: Locks is transformed into a movie theater of sorts
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Posted 02/11/2012
Why go to the Ritz Five when you can hang out at Locks? Downstairs, you can perch on a cube, don headphones, and become hypnotized by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib's baffling but beautiful 1967, a multichannel video installation loosely inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film La Chinoise, in which five Frenc
"Home and Hearth," a 2011 serigraph on paper, is part of the "Willie Cole: Deep Impressions" exhibition at the Rowan University Art Gallery.
Galleries: 'Willie Cole: Deep Impressions' emphasizes artist's ties to Newark, N.J.
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Posted 02/03/2012
If you admire the fertile imagination of Willie Cole, do not miss the excellent and easygoing survey of his work, "Willie Cole: Deep Impressions," at the Rowan University Art Gallery, organized by independent curator and former Montclair Art Museum director Patterson Sims. (Sims was also the curator of Cole's first comprehensive survey show, "Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands," which originated at Montclair Art Museum in 2005 under his directorship.)
 
Galleries: Fiber and other marvelous media - 01/27/2012
By Edith Newhall, Inquirer Gallery Critic
If fiber art still brings your mom's macrame to mind, rather than the awesome textile sculptures of Sheila Hicks or Nick Cave, you've clearly not been getting enough of it.
Galleries: Gallery pairs art furniture with Picasso prints - 01/20/2012
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
It's not a pairing that automatically comes to mind - the prints of Picasso and the furniture of Wendell Castle - but the cofounder of cubism and the art-furniture patriarch look as if they were made for each other in Wexler Gallery's current exhibition,
Galleries: Robert Asman's photos-turned-into-paintings - 01/13/2012
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Since the late 1970s, Robert Asman's silver gelatin prints of his photographs have been noticed as much for their imagery - which runs the gamut from bluntly uningratiating to ecstatic - as for his artistry with paper and chemicals. Now, a retrospective of Asman's photographs at the Print Center, "Robert Asman: Silver Mine," organized by its director, Elizabeth Spungen, shows off his alchemy as applied to such diverse subjects as city trees, nudes, developing trays, and clouds.
Galleries: Dreamy at Fleisher/Ollman - 12/25/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Contemporary culture's intense fascination with all things mystical, undead, and Victorian-flavored, once cyclical and now seemingly perpetual, is mirrored in two one-person exhibitions at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery this holiday season.
Galleries: Artists' subversive sense of humor at Vox Populi - 12/09/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
The first in a series of three guest-artist exhibitions at Vox Populi Gallery has no title, but all four of its artists share a subversive sense of humor.
'Utopian Benches' by Francis Cape at Arcadia University - 11/25/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Arcadia University Art Gallery frequently goes out of its way to accommodate both artists and exhibitions. Until now, though, three arched windows, covered 30 years ago to transform the former power plant into a more gallerylike space, remained hidden. Then came sculptor Francis Cape, who knew what a little more daylight could do for the site-specific installation he envisioned there.
Galleries: 'Karmic Abstraction' brings a tint of turquoise to renovated Bridgette Mayer Gallery - 11/18/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
It's hard to say which is more impressive: The renovation of Bridgette Mayer Gallery, which has turned the former parlor floor and cellar beneath it into sleek, muted, minimalist spaces while retaining some of their 18th-century features, or the sprawling
Galleries: Stezaker landscape and nude collages displayed at University of the Arts - 11/11/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Though he started out as the youngest member of the first British Conceptual Art group in the 1960s, London-based artist John Stezaker quickly gravitated back to picture-making, first appropriating media images and, later, film-derived ones in his collage
Galleries: A new look at the Wireman - 11/04/2011
The mysterious found '70s pieces are paired with other work; and a focus on young artists.
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Philadelphia has spawned its share of mysterious artists, certainly, but none has captured the imagination as the Philadelphia Wireman continues to do. Who was this anonymous artist, and why were nearly a thousand of his (or her) idiosyncratic bent-wire assemblages left spilling out of damp cardboard boxes on Juniper Street in South Philly?
Galleries: A picture-perfect time for pictures at Haverford - 10/28/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
There's no better time to meander through Haverford College's leafy campus than the present, when the leaves are crimson and orange and three of the college's five art galleries are simultaneously putting on their own brilliant displays.
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Galleries: Two shows at Locks illustrate the artistry of chance - 10/21/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Galleries: Timothy Belknap turns everyday objects into sculpture - 10/14/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Galleries: Miss Rockaway Armada makes a splendid splash - 10/07/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Galleries: In prints and paintings, an outlook on devastation - 09/30/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Galleries: Ray Johnson's boxes, and sublime collage portraits - 09/23/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Galleries: Life-size images and forms of everyday moments - 09/16/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Galleries: - 08/26/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer
Galleries: Pale photographs that could easily pass for paintings - 08/19/2011
By Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer


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