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“Security and Adventure”: Adventures in Agronomy Part 1
"Security and adventure might be considered opposites in some situations, but the gardener who raises plants from seeds can experience both..." (The New Seed Starter's Handbook). At the AITA Farm we've ... Read More
ROOT Cocktail of the Week: Ginger ROOT Sling
The ROOT Competition at Silk City brought together 14 talented baretenders, with a few of them shining over the rest. The top 4 recipes the took the judges for a ... Read More
Curator Damian Weinkrantz Invites You: “Please Be Welcome”…To Venture to NYC!
Art In The Age Artist/Friend, Damian Weinkrantz has been hard at work for the past few months, curating a new exhibition opening next Saturday August 15th in New York City! THE ... 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 Future Is Here….Greyworld’s Kinetic Sculpture
When I think of the future, I think of robots and the end of the world. As far as Art, anything goes. Greyworld, a UK based group of artists, founded ... Read More
Unbroken Home: Coal-Minin’ Life Inside A Bottle
If I could save time in a bottle...I'll tell you what I'd like to do... I'd save every beautiful landscape 'til eternity passed me away. Such, also, was the thought process of ... Read More
Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Solo Exhibition, “Movement I, Movement II and a Sculpture”
At first glance of the image promoting AJW's upcoming show, Movement I, Movement II and a Sculpture, I was very confused. The soft and romantic photograph of still life did ... Read More
Good News For Philadelphia: The Saint March Collective!
A long list of adjectives mentally pair with the word "Philadelphia": grimy, greasy, depressed, philthy, gray...to name a few. But I've got a new one for you... PROGRESSIVE. I am completely serious. ... 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
Noteworthy Exhibition: SHOP @ The Print Center, Open Until Feb. 11!
Don't worry, you didn't miss it! The Print Center presents... SHOP: Art, Commerce and the Printed Image Installation of specially created artist projects that explore the ties between commerce and the printed image. Featuring work by: Edna ... Read More
FRIDAY @ Space 1026: AJ Fosik & Andrew Schoultz!
Possibly (like me) on ACTUAL First Friday, you kept your sweatsuit/pajamas on and stayed right where you were seated since Christmas...the couch. If this was indeed the case, you have ... Read More
ITS OK: An INTERVIEW with The Artist Known As SIGHN
Two-man show "Our Intentions Are Honorable" opened this past Friday at Space 1026, featuring the work of Sighn and Trevor Reese. I had the opportunity and honor of interrogating (read: chatting ... Read More
Mere Days from MERE INCHES: An INTERVIEW with Jim Houser Before The Big Show
Ben Woodward reports on Jim Houser's thoughts before the opening of his latest show, MERE INCHES, opening this Saturday at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in LA... Ben Woodward: How does this spot ... Read More
Clothes and The Gallery: Appropriating Back and Forth Forever
Henry James and Hendrik C. Anderson, 2001 Art in the Age is a unique snowflake in the art/apparel world because we take the work of fine artists and put them onto ... Read More
INTERVIEW: Babel-ing with Jim Houser
Jim Houser is a self taught Philadelphia-based painter and installation artist, well known for his cartoon-like images on small canvases juxtaposed with painted and appropriated objects. Others may also know ... Read More
KNITpicking: Handmade Frippery Gets Out of the House
The bottom line is: My grandmother's hip. I'm not talking about her replacement surgery, I'm talking about her handicrafts. Knit goods inherently possess "aura" - that special moment of visual and ... Read More
