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What You Do to the World, You Do to Yourself

We love these illustrations from Advertisers Without Borders! Via 10 Engines Read More

Who Killed Walter Benjamin, a Film by David Mauas

Director David Mauas just released this amazing documentary, Who Killed Walter Benjamin,  which tries to shed some light on Benjamin's mysterious death. "In September 1940, after seven years of exile, Walter ... Read More

New Arrival: Manzine Issue 4

Issue 4 of the long awaited Manzine has just arrived at Art in the Age! A publication focused on the male phenomenon, featuring: grudge walking and polite driving, mountaineering boots, nuclear ... Read More

Daniel Bell on the Significance of Walter Benjamin

Daniel Bell was a sociologist and a professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his seminal contributions to the study of post-industrialism. Bell, who passed away last month, has ... Read More

Henry David Thoreau: Philosopher, Poet, Pencil Pioneer

(via arttattler.com) We unilaterally advocate that "Jack of All Trades" be revised henceforth to "Henry of All Trades." Our fave anarchist, Henry David Thoreau...WHAT A GUY. Despite Nathaniel Hawthorne's less-than-glowing ... Read More

A Gentle Reminder To Young Men & Women: A Tamworth Lyceum Internship Awaits!

Applications for the Summer Internship Program at the Tamworth Lyceum are rolling in, and THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS TODAY! Are you an undergraduate majoring in Fine Arts, Visual Studies, ... Read More

Aldo Leopold: Elder of the Tribe

“What I am trying to make clear, is that if in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it ... Read More

BBC Discussion: The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution

LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION on the BBC MEDIA PLAYER The Industrial Revolution, or roughly the period of time from 1750-1830, wrought myriad and lasting chances to the infrastructure of both British ... Read More

New Year’s Resolution: To Be More Green

This year you are making a conscious effort to be more Green. There are many lifestyle choices that you can make that help out your community and the Earth. These efforts not ... Read More

TONIGHT in VERMONT! ROOT at Yestermorrow Design/Build School’s 6th Annual Art Auction

VERMONTERS! Join us tonight at Yestermorrow Design/Build School, nestled at the border of Warren and Waitsfield, VT. The art auction "celebrates the diverse talents of the Yestermorrow Community" and all proceeds ... Read More

TAMWORTH LYCEUM RENOVATION: Meet The Crew, The Project Begins…

We are pleased to introduce a roster of awesome & able individuals comprising the Tamworth Lyceum Renovation Crew. Over the next four months, we'll be restoring and re-designing the ground ... Read More

Art in the Age Founder Steven Grasse to Open Tamworth Lyceum

With ardent aims and buoyant spirits, we are proud to announce the newest project from Art in the Age founder, Steven Grasse...The Tamworth Lyceum (formerly The Tamworth Village Store). Betwixt ... Read More

Elegy Written In A NH Barnyard: The Passing of Summer

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The pecking hens winds slowly o'er the lea,
The groundskeeper homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the farm to darkness and to me. Now fades ... Read More

Charles Eames Discusses: The New Covetables

Amongst the greatest characters of mid century design are Charles and Ray Eames. They were a motorcycle riding, pipe smoking husband and wife duo that have influenced every generation ... Read More

Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson!

On this day (May 25) in 1803, the essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Today we know him as on of the "Founding Fathers" ... Read More

EARTH DAY 1970: A Question of Survival, EARTH DAY 2010: A Question of Sustainability

This planet is threatened with destruction and we who live in it with death. The heavens reek. The waters below are foul. Children die in infancy. And we and the ... Read More

SLOW DESIGN: The Domesticity of The Avant-Garde and Other Tactile Tales

We're totally down with the philosophy of Slow Food. We support the strategy behind Slow Money. How about SLOW DESIGN? Hell, yes. A recent article in the Financial Times, "The Riches of Stitches," ... Read More

A Thanksgiving Day Hike in The White Mountain National Forest

Thanksgiving morning, I woke up especially early in anticipation of finally hiking Mt. Chocorua, the stately peak that overlooks the farm. I filled my pack with rain gear (90% chance ... Read More

AITA Adventures Abroad: Discussing The Farm in Europe

Some entertaining tidbits from my recent trip across the pond...I was surprised and delighted to discover that at least the IDEA of the New American Organic "Farmer" seems to be ... Read More

NO PASSING ZONE: Can America Slowwwww Dowwwn During Lean Times?

For as long as I can remember, industrial and economic efficiency was synonymous with speed. Fast food, fast cash, Disney FastPass, Instant Savings, Instant Rebate, Quick Oats?, Minute Rice? Frankly, the list ... Read More

CULTURE TAX: Frankly, My Dear Pennsylvania…WTF?!

Last week, The New York Times reported an enraging tidbit in the Arts section. Hold onto your knickers, all ye citizens of The Keystone State... A provision in the newly-agreed-upon state ... Read More

10 Things I Have Learned: New Hampshire Redux

Milton Glaser isn't the only designer with reflecting to do. As we enter the last stretch of ineluctable "dog days," one can't help but ruminate upon the just-lived months of ... Read More

A Treatise On Fruits & Creatures of Solitude

There is a lot to be said (not out loud) for learning to live alone. Becoming sincerely comfortable with a generally solitary day-to-day is truly a skill that one must ... Read More

AGRO-FABulous: Agriculture Enters The Discourse of Site-Specific Installation

WATCH OUT CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE! I'm coming down the tracks with a 4 foot long roll of white, gauzy fabric! I'm ready to wrap the immediate landscape like you've never ... Read More

The Tamworth Sleep Commandments

One of the most ostensible life changes that I have experienced in my short two weeks of rural living is what I affectionately nominate, The Tamworth Sleep Commandments. Here are the ... Read More

Our Forgotten Founding Father

Alright, I need to begin with an admission. While sitting in the Thomas Paine panel discussion last Monday, what most struck me was how little I knew—and, actually, still do ... Read More

A Homestead Reading List

A Relevant Summer Reading List thus far: Look To The Mountain by LeGrand Cannon, Jr. Summer Cottages In The White Mountains by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr. Great Hill Farm is featured in here... Country ... Read More

Celebrate Thomas Paine Day!

"Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages ... Read More

A “Lifestyle” List: What I Will Miss About Philadelphia

June is for soul-searching. June is for psychological indulgence of every "what if," so I can get them all out of my system and stop feeling like a yellow-belly. The ... Read More

An Exciting 2 Weeks, According To My Slingshot Planner

Monday, May 11: Pullman Strike begins, first revolutionary strike on continental European model (1894), Salvador Dali born (1904) Tuesday, May 12: Lusty Lady workers take over operations at theater (2003) Wednesday, May ... Read More

Book Covers As Art: Fontana Modern Masters

Coolest find of the weekend, courtesy of a pal. (Covered by click opera, the journal of Scottish artist and Berlin resident, momus.) Hearkening back to the 1970's, "Fontana Modern Masters was a ... Read More

Bryce Dessner of The National Does “The Lincoln Shuffle”

Bryce Dessner of The National will present an evening of original Lincoln-inspired compositions at the Rosenbach Museum & Library on Thursday, April 2nd at 6:30 pm. "The Lincoln Shuffle" is Dessner's ... Read More

OUTRAGE: Burger King Studio & Have It Your Way Tees

Burger King has launched an artist apparel collaboration program. The title? Burger King Studio. The line? Have It Your Way Tees. Yes. You heard me correctly... Burger.King.Studio. This is the bane of my ... Read More

The Textile Files: Walter In The Wild & A Plethora of Other Fabric Delights

The Textile Files, the musings of Solveigh Goett (German textile artist and researcher living in the south of England), is my new favorite blog. Simple and unassumingly poignant in nature, ... Read More

ESSENTIAL MANIFESTO: The New Typography, Jan Tschichold

Two years ago, one of my most awesome and favorite design professors instructed me to get my hands on a copy of this tiny volume as fast as I possibly ... Read More

Curated Apothecary Brand Profile: Moss Botanicals

Moss Botanicals (based out of Ojai, California) is a line of aromatherapy mists and roll-on fragrances derived from natural indredients and essential oils. Stacey L. Moss, the owner and founder ... Read More

POINT OF VIEW: The Art Gallery/Retail Space Ain’t Nothin’ New!

Yesterday, an article in The New York Times, "All Dressed Up Like Art Galleries," highlighted several high-end boutiques in Chicago, NYC, and LA that had stumbled upon quite an innovation: "...mounting ... Read More

Taxation for (Artistic) Creation: Benjamin, Roosevelt, & Obama

Walter Benjamin wrote his critical essay "The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) at the height of The Great Depression in America. Though German by birth ... Read More

The Franklin Fountain: History, Antiques & Delectable Confections…Just Around The Corner!

Brothers Ryan and Eric Berley serve far more than beverages at the magical Franklin Fountain in Old City. Pennsylvania history experts, rare antique purveyors, and delightful intellectuals - The proprietors ... Read More

WHO I’M DYING TO MEET: Backyard Economists Harriet & Marge of PRESERVE, Portland

Last week I was tipped off to PRESERVE, a Portland-based coalition of two women on an urban farm, Harriet Fasenfest and Marge Braker. The goal of PRESERVE is "to educate ... Read More

The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction…In 30 Seconds

You can watch this video quicker than you can say "Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction", three times fast. Ridiculous PowerPoint music, good points. Rather interesting that most of ... Read More

Walter Benjamin & Interior Decorating?! The Arcades Project & The Bourgeois Apartment

An awesome and insightful article from Drinking Upstream: Real clear thoughts on the philosophy of dwelling really got me thinking... Shane Waggoner writes, "In The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin described ... Read More

IMAGE NECESSITIES: Walter Benjamin Symposium (Part II)

This is the second and last piece in a pair of documentation posts for IMAGE NECESSITIES: A Symposium on the Media-Theoretical Writings of Walter Benjamin. [caption id="attachment_521" align="alignnone" width="199" caption="A Gathering ... Read More

IMAGE NECESSITIES: Walter Benjamin Symposium (Part I)

On Friday, I had the honor and pleasure of attending IMAGE NECESSITIES: A Symposium on the Media-Theoretical Writings of Walter Benjamin. The two-day Event O' Academia was held at Princeton ... Read More

Cabinet Magazine: “Getting High With Benjamin & Burroughs”

Housed within the pages of the latest issue (No. 30) of the ever-compelling art/lit publication, Cabinet, is an essay on Walt Benjamin, William Burroughs, and hallucinogens. [caption id="attachment_496" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The ... Read More

Walter Benjamin and Ways of Seeing: “Nomadic Colors” on The Web?

BlogLESS, writings on design restraint, brought up a very interesting application of our friend Walt Benjamin's ideas on the reproduction of art in contemporary society. The article, entitled "Colors for ... Read More

Photoshop As Art: What Would Walter Say?

Check out this recent blog commentary on Contemporary Digital Media as art from Carla Moloney. Thinking Points From The Post: a) If reproducibility decreases the "aura" of an artwork, does it also ... Read More

Musings on Our Society of Spectacle: Lawler, Benjamin, and Friends

Benjamin thinks on Louise Lawler's "Pollock and Tureen, Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Connecticut" - 1984 A recent post by art history students at The University of California in ... Read More

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