http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall RSS Feed for Inq Col Edith Newhall en-us Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:01:00 GMT 2012-12-23T08:01:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121223_Galleries___Bendler_Browning_s_kaleidoscopic_images.html If you travel through a city regularly, as Arden Bendler Browning does in Philadelphia, you'll recognize the shifting, overlapping views in her paintings as images glimpsed on the move, even at the various speeds at which they might have been encountered. If you use Google Maps, as Bendler Browning also does, you might notice a correlation between the effect of zooming in and out on digital maps and the sense of compression and expansion in each of her compositions. Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121223_Galleries___Bendler_Browning_s_kaleidoscopic_images.html 2012-12-23T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121216_Galleries___Diverse_styles_exploring_a_bit_of_magic_realism.html Magic realism has never gone out of fashion in literature, but it hasn't had much of a presence in art since the late 1950s, when informed art-world tastes turned to bolder, bigger, less-allusive art. Over the last decade, though, the psychologically comp Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121216_Galleries___Diverse_styles_exploring_a_bit_of_magic_realism.html 2012-12-16T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121209_Galleries___In_Delaware__themes_that_captivate_young_artists.html Over the last two years, curators J. Susan Isaacs and Maiza Hixson have transformed the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington into one of the most discerning venues for contemporary art in our area, identifying or addressing trends with ambitious, provocative group shows and carefully chosen solo ones. Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121209_Galleries___In_Delaware__themes_that_captivate_young_artists.html 2012-12-09T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121202_Galleries___Penn_brings_its_photo_collection_out_into_the_light.html For years, even as it grew in size, the University of Pennsylvania's photography collection was largely unseen and inaccessible. More than 800 prints languished in portfolio cases on the uppermost shelves in storage until Lynn Marsden-Atlass, a year into her tenure as director and curator of Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery, decided to see what those cases contained. Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:53:24 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121202_Galleries___Penn_brings_its_photo_collection_out_into_the_light.html 2012-12-03T14:53:24Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121125_Galleries____Outside_of_Time___beautifully_and_mysteriously.html Since their spring appearance at Arcadia University - in which they showed huge poured-plaster reliefs, one gradually revealing the contours of Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce and the other of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool - the artist duo Deche Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121125_Galleries____Outside_of_Time___beautifully_and_mysteriously.html 2012-11-25T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121118_Galleries_.html ATLANTIC CITY - Described in words, art projects can often sound unlikely, if not impossible, but this one was immediately and alluringly odd: a new art park in Atlantic City on a seven-acre plot where the distinguished Traymore Hotel held court for nearly a century before being razed in 1972. Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:29:28 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121118_Galleries_.html 2012-11-18T08:29:28Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121111_Galleries___Excellent_exhibition_fills_the_Abington_Art_Center.html Only two weeks remain to see one of the most sublime exhibitions of the fall season. "Winifred Lutz: Between Perception and Definition," the first large survey of the works of Lutz, a Philadelphia-based artist, has the entire Abington Art Center to itself and also includes the poetic site-specific outdoor installations she has been making in the center's sculpture park since 1992. Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121111_Galleries___Excellent_exhibition_fills_the_Abington_Art_Center.html 2012-11-11T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121104_Galleries___Bradshaw_s_art_highlights_chance__indeterminacy.html Though Dove Bradshaw's art is all about chance, change, and indeterminacy, it's no accident that her one-person show at Larry Becker Contemporary Art, "Copper, Silver, Fool's Gold" coincides with "Dancing Around the Bride," the current Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition examining Marcel Duchamp's interactions and exchanges with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:13:38 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121104_Galleries___Bradshaw_s_art_highlights_chance__indeterminacy.html 2012-11-05T14:13:38Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121028_Galleries___Powerful_photographs_of_life_in_Naples__ghettos.html As seen in his book, Gomorrah Girl, published by Cross Editions in 2011, Valerio Spada's documentary photographs of adolescents navigating Naples' crime-ridden streets were striking enough to win him Blurb's 2011 Photography Book Now grand prize for best book of the year. As large prints displayed on the walls of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, where Spada is exhibiting them for the first time, they're less obviously tied to the book's narrative, which makes them even more powerful. Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:47:49 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121028_Galleries___Powerful_photographs_of_life_in_Naples__ghettos.html 2012-10-31T20:47:49Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121021_Galleries___Faux-naif_visions_of_Rose_Wylie.html Being surrounded by Rose Wylie's huge, messy, colorful paintings is exhilarating, especially if you've heard that Wylie, a British artist, has just turned 78 - and even more so when you notice that most of the work in this exhibition at University of the Arts' Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery dates from the last decade. Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/edith_newhall/20121021_Galleries___Faux-naif_visions_of_Rose_Wylie.html 2012-10-21T07:01:00Z