Meet us in Vegas, baby!

Art In The Age is attending the Pool Tradeshow from August 25-27 at Central Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center!

Come visit us at Booth # 635.

Check out the Fall '08 line, featuring work by:

Jim Houser

Jayson Musson

Ben Woodward

Julianne Ahn

Courtney Dailey

Beth Brandon

Damian Weinkrantz

Clint Woodside

Whitney Bedford

...and our limited edition collaboration tees with Times New Viking & NO AGE!

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Just when I thought David Byrne couldn't get any more excellent...

An article in the NY Times proved me wrong!

The latest art/installation project by the epic Talking Heads frontman are smart, unexpected, offbeat bike rack designs. As part of NYC's push to increase bike commuting, Byrne has helped to raise awareness by assisting in the judging of the CityRacks Design Competition. He then designed and funded the installation of 9 of his own designs around the city!

The work can and should be considered "site-specific." For example, an enormous dollar sign rack currently and appropriately resides on Wall Street!

The racks will remain installed on the street for 11 months.

Have a look at this video interview from The Wall Street Journal about the project...

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Another amazing music collaboration with Art in the Age and NO AGE had arrived and Fat seagull has written all about it. Checkout the post!

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"Art in the NO AGE of Mechanical Reproduction

String Break ?08 by NO AGE

If you want change, make it happen. If you want to make music or art, do it yourself. This is a call to action!

Randy Randall and Dean Spunt of LA pop-punk duo, NO AGE, are spreading the word through their music, as well as with this limited edition collaboration with Art In The Age!

Spring Break ?08 is a celebration of string-breaking, rule-breaking, and tradition-breaking!

About the Artist: NO AGE

Bastions of the Los Angeles DIY art-punk scene, NO AGE (aka Randy Randall and Dean Spunt) is, without a doubt, a more-than-noteworthy band on the rise. Randy and Dean are constructing their own musical world - fusing punk, pop, surf, and ambient noise influences with their own raw low-tech sound. With an intense international touring schedule, Randy and Dean still keep their fingers on the pulse of the art world, curating exhibitions, working with community projects, and taking on a variety of artistic collaborations. Do they ever sleep?! They must find time somewhere, as their energy absolutely does not falter from their records, to their live shows, and traveling adventures!

Men?s :http://artintheage.com/store/no_age_string_break/

Women?s :http://artintheage.com/store/ltd_edition_no_age_string_break_tee/"

Posted by Nicole

PAPER Magazine's blog, Word Up! posts about Art in the Age collaboration with No Age! The shirt is called "String Break" and in all of its limited editioness glory is available at the AITA site. Check out the Word Up! post.

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"No Age Tee!

By Alexis Swerdloff

Philly-based T-shirt purveyors Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction are just cranking out the band-designed tees. Following in the footsteps of their Times New Viking collab, AITAOMR invited L.A. art-punk duo No Age in on the fun. Check out their limited edition String Break tee. It'll cost you $28 and is available here."

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CURRENT EXHIBITION OF NOTE:

"Before You Wake, Before You Vanish"

LOCATION:

Copy Gallery - Philadelphia, PA

ARTISTS/MEDIUM:

Damian Weinkrantz (drawing), Isaac Schell (photography), Becky Suss (painting)

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This month's issue of JUXTAPOZ Magazine is of particular interest due to a 6-spread, glossy article of an interview with Andrew Jeffrey Wright conducted and photographed by Adam Wallacavage. A veritable Art In The Age Dream Team?!

For a sneak peek, check out my wee scans below. For a more complete viewing experience, go pick up your own copy!

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Art In The Age says, "Hell, yes!"

More than 60 Baltimore-based musicians, comprising a "community on wheels," will traverse seven cities during the month of October. Dan Deacon, our fave electro-freakout Baltimorean, has curated this insanity.

The non-conventional format of a "Round Robin" Show is something worth getting off your ass, two nights in a row, to experience. I am currently too psyched to sit still.

What To Expect:

-All performers set up around the venue in a circle

-Each band/musician plays one song per round.

-There are no breaks.

-There is no headliner or opener.

For some semblance of organization, Deacon has divided the performers into three groups: Eyes, Feet, and Weird. The Eyes and Feet Group with each perform on separate nights, with the Weird Group musicians scattered throughout. Here is the breakdown:

EYES NIGHT:

Beach House

Creepers

Ed Schrader

Jana Hunter

Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez

Lexie Mountain Boys

Nautical Almanac

Santa Dads

Teeth Mountain

WZT HEARTS

FEET NIGHT:

Adventure

Blood baby

Dan Deacon

The Deathset

DJ Dog Dick

Double Dagger

Future Islands

Height

Lizz King

Nuclear Power Pants

Smarthgrowth

Video Hippos

THE WEIRD ROUND:

Boo Boos

Cornelious and Pitifa

Funny Clown

Mark Brown

Ram Ones

Show Beats

Sports Ghosts

And the schedule...

10/02 Boston, MA Mass Arts *

10/03 Boston, MA Mass Arts #

10/04 Montreal, QC Église Saint-Enfant Jésus / Pop Montreal *

10/05 Montreal, QC Église Saint-Enfant Jésus / Pop Montreal #

10/08 Detroit, MI Museum of Contemporary Art *

10/09 Detroit, MI Museum of Contemporary Art #

10/10 Chicago, IL Epiphany *

10/11 Chicago, IL Epiphany #

10/13 Oberlin, OH Oberlin College *

10/14 Oberlin, OH Oberlin College #

10/15 Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom *

10/16 Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom #

10/17 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge *

10/18 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge #

* = Eyes Night

# = Feet Night

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If you are not yet aware of a Philadelphia-based printmaker/painter/professor extraordinaire by the name of Matt Neff, allow me to introduce you. His work in silkscreening and letterpress is arresting - simultaneously thought-provoking and humorous in spirit. His personal energy appears boundless (How else could one manage a printshop and teach silkscreening, intaglio, relief, and letterpress to throngs of clutter-prone collegiates?). And his crazy journey from painting in Indiana to professorship at The University of Pennsylvania is undoubtedly worth retelling. So without further ado...

Who are you and where do you come from?

My name is Matt Neff, and I come from Indiana.

How did you end up in Philadelphia?

I went to undergrad at Indiana University for a BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History. I married my wife, Allison, 3 weeks after I graduated. We met in class. I was married when I was 22!

Ahh! I'm 22!

Yeah! Can you imagine getting married!? We were crazy, so we just packed up a truck and moved here on a whim. I'd never been here before. We talked a landlord into renting to us since we had no credit, and I started finding random jobs.

What are some of the more ridiculous jobs you've held?

I used to work at The Book Trader, shelving books for 12 hours a day, which was actually sort of cool. I read a lot. Although I didn't make much money, every week I got free books!

After a year, I applied to grad school at Penn and Tyler. I got into Penn and started school again.

How did you segway into teaching?

Basically right as I was graduating, they asked me to start teaching.

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Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia welcomes three new members in the August exhibition entitled, "Everything Was Cool...'Til The New Guys Showed Up."

Two of the artists stood out to me in particular for completely disparate reasons.

Rob Swainston, a Philadelphia/NYC-based printmaker and sociologist of sorts, presented an impressive tableau of woodcut prints on the walls, as well as in an installation piece. A towering metal rack housed prints of various sizes, suspended or interwoven. Swainston's work is especially notable for his bold use of color and tightness of over-printing techniques.

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Dear Mr. Reatard,

How are you? I'm fine. You know, I'm just mildly addicted to your upbeat, garage-punk sound and such. I am psyched on the Fall release of your Matador Singlescompilation. Mostly because I dig your 06-07 Singles set so much.

Which brings me to my next point...

I SAW A PHOTO OF YOU WAILING ON YOUR GUITAR WEARING ART IN THE AGE DUDS!

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The Rolling Canvas Art Collective show officially takes the cake (in my book, at least) for the Best Of August Exhibitions. I was especially pumped up to see works by a group of multi-talented, eclectic artists.

Quick Recap: Over 20 artists from Philly and surrounding areas were each given a brand spankin' new Fuji Track Bike with which to do...anything. The results ranged from elegantly hand lettered frames to a bike rack-turned-silkscreen-shop! All works are available for purchase, with proceeds benefiting Neighborhood Bike Works of Philadelphia.

The two floors of two-wheeled creations in the gritty, dim Media Bureau warehouse exhibition space were packed full of visitors and friends with tunes cranking and beer flowing, even as I rolled in after 10 pm. This is a really good reason to make a trip/walk/ride out to 725 North 4th Street. A really honest and lighthearted show for a good cause.

There are many wheeled creations not pictured here, but they were all worthy and all quite unique. Visit Art In The Age Flickr! for the full rundown.

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Philly-based web/interactive magician, Michael Highland, presents a new soon-to-be guilty pleasure internet time-trap...

THE GIFERATOR

..."a free animation-based subliminal content absorption system for you!"

Q: What does The Giferator do?

A: The Giferator creates a spastic animated .gif FOR you, based on a comprehensive Google Image search.

Q: How does it work?

A: You type in search terms. Two-word phrases are recommended (see my example above). The Giferator gathers content from a Google Image search for your phrase and automatically creates an animation with all found content. Be patient, it takes a few minutes, but the results are exciting!

Q: When, where, and with whom can I Giferate?

A: Giferating is recommended morning, noon, or all night long...on your laptop, desktop, or internet-compatible cell phone...by yourself or with your friends and lovers.

Q: Is Giferating forever?

A: You can choose to save your .gif in The Gallery and have it randomly juxtaposed with another user's search terms to create a Giferated Diptych!

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What are you waiting for?!?!? Ladies and Gentlemen, start your giferators...

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The evening began with a romp through the mystical excess of Space 1026's show "One Long Funeral Song" of a gallery-wide collaborative installation by Monica Canilao and Kyle Ranson. This piece proved to be one of the more all-encompassing shows at 1026 as of late in all of its thick, decorative, wall-covering glory. Floating somewhere between craftiness and its self-proclaimed mythological narrative, this showing could easily do a lot more through grander excess on an even larger scale, or a lot less by parsing its constituent pieces into individual memorials of a sort. It was not so much the arrangement of found objects that made the piece cohesive, but the color palette and paint treatment of the wooden figures and constructed foliage and tee-pee-like structures. Noted: A painted casket with a folkloric Freudian figure within? This was a source of narrative intrigue.

Posted by Robin

The amazing Type-high blog posts about some of the raw materials within the Art in the Age design family. Check out the images and the entire post at the Type-high blog!

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The Great Cogs of Industry.

Behold! Raw Materials of Design!

Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Phase I

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Space 1026 presents a collaborative installation by San Francisco-based artists Monica Canilao and Kyle Ranson. The show, entitled "One Long Funeral Song," features a gallery wide installation piece, forged from found objects, paper, and sewn fabric. The work is meant to explore the clash of "the black, vampiric conjurings of colonialism" with "the nature magic of indigenous, poor and creative peoples."

An opening reception commences this evening at 6 pm. Space 1026 is located at 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia.

For a sneak peek, visit the Space 1026 Blog for installation shots.

Posted by Robin

Exciting news! Over a decade of poster art from the eclectic and ever-wonky Baltimore music scene is featured in a soon-to-be-released printed compendium entitled Paper Kingdom by Elena Johnston. The book includes such goodies as:

-Color screenprints from Wham City and Wildfire Wildfire

-Hardcore pre-internet work from the 90s

-Interviews with Dan Deacon, Victoria LeGrand of Beach House, Shaun Flynn of WZT HEARTS, and Nolen Strals of Double Dagger and Post Typography

"How can I get my hands on a copy!!!" you say?

You have two choices:

A. The book release party will be held August 10 at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, with musical guest friends Beach House and Cass McCombs. The limited edition first pressing of Paper Kingdom will be available then.

B. Preview and buy online. USPS forever.

For more info and news about the book, read up on the Paper Kingdom blog!

Posted by Robin

The Event: Copy Gallery in Philadelphia presents "Before You Wake, Before You Vanish," an exhibition of new work from Damian Weinkrantz, Becky Suss, and Issac Schell. Through painting, drawing and photography, respectively, each artist illustrates the idea of domestic space, interpolated into varied environmental contexts.

Why You Should Be There: Damian Weinkrantz is an Art In The Age Artist who you should expect to see/hear more from in the future. Also, make it a point to catch this showing of Becky Suss' paintings before she hits the dusty westward trail. Sigh.

The Work:

Posted by Robin

We bring art to the masses! Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is one of Digphilly's picks for just this reason. Take a look at the entire articled on the Digphilly site!

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"Digphilly Pick: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

By Emily

For many art fans, the idea of actually owning a work by their favorite artist is out of the question for obvious financial reasons. That?s where Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction comes in.

For the past few years, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction has been seeking out emerging contemporary artists and printing their work in low-cost, wearable multiples: T-shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags and more. The result is two-fold?greater public exposure for the artists and a way for art appreciators to access that work affordably.

It?s a simpatico relationship for all parties involved. Individual artists provide Art in the Age with limited rights to use his/her image, be it painterly landscapes or hyper comic book-style drawings. Art in the Age then works closely with each artist, carefully adapting the image for the printing process.

Prints from Paper Rad, Lori Damiano, and Seripop, as well as Philly art faves Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Thom Lessner, and Ben Woodward, have found their way onto Art in the Age?s roster. Art in the Age also recently began teaming up with bands to produce limited edition t-shirts and tour posters. Times New Viking and No Age are their first band collabos, with more to come.

With an inventory constantly shifting to make way for new collaborations, it?s best to grab whatever floats your boat before it?s gone. For updates on artist collaborations, profiles, and related blog posts, check out www.artintheage.com.

Art in the Age goods can be found online at www.artintheage.com or at the following Philadelphia retail shops:

Vagabond Boutique

37 N 3rd St

Philadelphia, PA 19106

(267) 671-0737

Sailor Jerry

116-118 S. 13th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 531-6380"

Posted by Nicole

Featured on the cover of the upcoming release of Jay Reatard's new 7" is the man himself wearing none other than the Art in the Age "Fang Tee".

Posted by Nicole

Thanks to a grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Art in the Age Artist Dan Murphy and co-creative partner Anthony Smyrski present...

The Megawords storefront project and exhibition!

This initiative will include a month of art, music, and education - including, but not limited to speakers, musical performances, workshops, film screenings, and installation art that foster a democratic mindframe of curation for the public.

Some visitors include: Hamburger Eyes, Stephen Powers, Craig Costello, Wesley Eisold of Heartworm Press, Max Morton, Maysles Films, Isaac Lin, Amanda Blank, Rose Luardo, DJs Andy Pry and Stephen Bush, William Pym, Zoe Strauss, ADAMS & KEGR, Alex Lukas, Mattathias Schwartz, Benjamin Tiven, Hsi-Chang Lin, and the Philadelphia Independent.

I strolled by to check out the space myself yesterday...

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Hawk Krall, illustrator extraordinaire and designer of our Philly Grease-tastic Hawk Tee, has been hard at work, drawing up a veritable storm. Have a look-see at some of the latest...

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Hark, Friends and Lovers of Type! Forget your worldly aches and kerns, and list to pages of this volume!

Designer Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich has crafted ninety-six glorious pages of sculpted type and ornaments in an homage to great literary figures and epic emotions.

Posted by Robin

FUJI Bikes, Jinxed Philadelphia, and R.E.Load Bags present....

The Rolling Canvas Art Collective, a show/auction featuring the work of over 20 artists working in sculpture, metalcraft, painting, and printmaking. The work is classified as "installation," and entails each artist having his/her way with a fixed gear bicycle. The crazy two-wheeled creations will be up for public auction. A portion of all profits will benefit Neighborhood Bike Works, a non-profit bicycle youth education program in West Philly.

The featured artists include:

Shane Jessup

Tim Diet

Michael Isaac Bushkin

Norm

Chris Yormick

Carrie Collins

Tristan Eaton

Leanne Biank

Adam Wallacavage*

Paul Romano

Emily Glaubinger

Jake Henry

Ben Woodward*

Joy LessPosh

Awesome Dudes Printing

Acid USA custom motorcycle painting

Greg "SP One" Lamarche

Eleanor Grosch

Darrin Rowland

Roland Burns

Ellie Lum

Gerik Forston*

Dustin Klein

Miriam Singer

*Art In The Age Artist! Wahoo!

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An opening reception and auction will take place on Friday, August 1 at 7 pm at Media Bureau Gallery located at 725 N. 4th Street (Northern Liberties). The exhibit will run through the end of August.

An online auction will begin at noon on Monday, August 4 last until noon on Thursday, August 14.

For more info about the exhibition and the featured artists, visit The Rolling Canvas Art Collective info page!

Posted by Robin

The limited Art in the Age collaboration tee with Times New Viking is on The Done Waiting Blog! Did we mention there is also a limited edition tour poster? Check out the TNV post and some other bonuses at the Done Waiting.com site.

Posted by Nicole

We here at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction think that we have great printed shirts, and so we are real glad that Let Them Eat Anemones posted about just that. Take a look at the full LTEA blog...

Posted by Nicole

Wisconsion-based independent film-maker Faythe Levine visited 15 cities and gathered over 80 hours of footage that both illustrates and celebrates the new wave of young, DIY craftspeople in America. From San Francisco stitchers to Brooklyn zine-makers, Levine delves into this generation (our generation! rah-rah!) of creatives who have grown up truly valuing the hand-made aesthetic and art-making for love of the craft.

The documentary, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft & Design, is due out in 2009. It is currently in post production.

In the meantime, check out the trailer...

And more good news: This Saturday from 6-10 pm, POKETO will host a silent art auction benefit for the documentary. The evening will include a 20 minute sneak peek!

Posted by Robin

Hide your arms loves the AITA Walrus tee double time, and but of course; AITA is the Walrus. Check out the Hide Your Arms Blog and limited edition Walrus Tee inspired by the Walrus Music Blog.

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"Art in the Age are the Walrus

This tee gives a shout out to a Philadelphia music blog called The Walrus, which I?d never heard of, but then again, I?m not from Philadelphia, and the only music blog I subscribe to is Stereogum, so what chance did I really have?

But if you don?t know what the blog is, like me, it doesn?t really matter for this design, because you might just think that there?s a cool looking Walrus on a t-shirt, and that would probably be enough for you. And if you?re a fan of the blog then you?re in a little secret society of music lovers that rally around your big-teethed mascot and nod at each other whenever you spot someone wearing the tee.

Costiness=$28"

Posted by Nicole

There must be something in the Los Angeles city water that makes babies grow up to be big healthy bands. I mean, innovative musicians and artists!

First case in point: NO AGE from last week.

Second case in point: HEALTH, another SoCal foursome delivering some delicious noise for your eagerly awaiting eardrums.

This live video of HEALTH's entire set from a show at Williamsburg's Music Hall is notable for two reasons:

1. Ridiculous. Stage. Intensity.

2. Is that the Art In The Age Stacks tee I spy? Oh...yes...on the percussive fellow in the back!

Posted by Robin

At first glance, this tiny tome appears to be a "quick read." The pocket-size collection of short rants spilling forth from art critic Hal Foster took me four months to digest.

From searing analyses of Rem Koolhaas' evolving theory of public architecture to a blow-by-blow of the meltdown of the modernist ARTFORUM crew of writers and editors, Foster maintains incisiveness and acuity through fits of near-dizzying diction, and of course, an occasional stunning/bewildering visual (see below).

Posted by Robin

This morning I thought I had been beaten with a baseball bat.

Then I remembered: I was pummeled against a speaker for a few hours, almost lost a camera to an onslaught of stage divers, and passed out asleep at some point with my ears ringing, covered in a gristly patina of strangers' sweat...

Oh yeah! NO AGE happened last night at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia!

Hot damn. I have yet to recover my hearing. I am the happiest person alive.

Posted by Robin

The Art in the Age collaboration tee with the Ohio band Times New Viking was featured on T-Critic in all of our weird and wonderfulness. Check out the post on T-Critic and then stop over to the Art in the Age site for the limited edition tee and tour poster!

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"The Hippies Are Back And They?re Punks - Times New Viking T-Shirt

This shirt is spawned from a collaboration between the always weird and wonderful Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction and Ohio-based lo-fi rockers, Times New Viking, not to be confused with Times New Roman."

Posted by Nicole

GIANT ROBOT NY presents...

Crocodile Tears: Small Works of Art by Over 50 Artists

The Giant Robot New York Gallery will host the work of over fifty artists working in various media from July 19 until August 13. Each artist has contributed up to five pieces, all smaller than 5" x 7". Painters, sculptors, printmakers, and other 3D media-makers are represented in the line-up...

Lart Cognac Berliner

Joe Buzzell

William Buzzell

Jeff Canham

C.F.

Charles Chatov

Jen Corace

Louie Cordero

Rob Corradetti

Vanessa Davis

Michael DeForge

Mark Delong

Eamon Espey

Edie Fake

Ray Fenwick

AJ Fosik

Noel Freibert

Lukas Geronimas

Matt Haber

Jenny Hart

Joseph Hart

Andrew Hem

Lizz Hickey

Caroline Hwang

Jordin Isip

Rich Jacobs

Misaki Kawai

Kim Kelly

Cat Lauigan

Matt Leines

Isaac Lin*

Matthew Lock

Arnaud Loumeau

Jeremiah Maddock

Sakura Maku

Lionel Maunz

Taylor McKimens

Jesse McManus

Garrett Morin

Christopher Silas Neal

Molly Colleen O?Connell

Kate O?Connor

Martin Ontiveros

Chauney Peck

Luke Ramsey

Martha Rich

David Sandlin

Emilio Santoyo

William Schaff

Daniel St. George

Crystal Stokowski

Mike Taylor

Thesis

Peter Thompson

Matthew Thurber

Chris Uphues

Damian Weinkrantz*

Eric White

*Art In The Age Artist!

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Giant Robot Gallery is open Monday - Thursday from 1 - 8:30 pm, Fridays and Saturdays from noon - 9pm, and Sundays from noon - 7 pm. The space is located at 437 East 9th Street in New York City. For more info, visit the gallery website.

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Another excellent printmaking exchange has come to an end in The City of Brotherly Love. After the Valentine's Day exchange, dedicated participants embarked on a new collective adventure of the typographic sort. Each printmaker was assigned a letter to be expressed in a series of twenty-six 4" x 6" prints.

Coordinated, collated, and hand-delivered via local printress, Leah Mackin, the edition looks amazing and represents a wide range of local printmaking interests.

Posted by Robin

Designer/typographer David Pearson designed this book cover for third installment of Penguin Books Great Ideas Series.

Brilliant.

Enough said.

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Check out the cover designs for the other releases in the series in the Flickr set.

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Last night I was more than honored and excited to interview Times New Viking, the most recent addition to our roster of artists, bringing us an awesome new shirt design and limited edition silk-screen print! Currently on Matador Records, their latest and third album, Rip It Off, was released early this year.

After their set at Johnny Brenda's, singer/keyboardist Beth Murphy sipped a Yards Philly Pale Ale, (Her Verdict: Much better than PBR, their staple back in Columbus) and talked with me about wanting to see something honest, something sincere written about the band besides just the catch-phrase, "lo fi."

Hopefully this review and interview will do justice to the unique vibrations and fun personalities behind Times New Viking...

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Currently, an array of noteworthy pieces are gracing the walls of RARE Gallery in Chelsea. I made it to the gallery in one piece late Sunday afternoon after trekking northward from Philly, walking through a series of fierce sun-showers (yes, FIERCE), and getting waylaid by the traffic-halting Gay Pride Parade through Madison Square Garden.

The Verdict? Worth all of the adventures and mishaps en route.

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Art in the Age's collaboration with Times New Viking has gone past amazingness into awesomeness! Perlabra says so! Check out the

blog, and then go check out the limited edition tee and tour poster available now!

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"Awesomeness

Thanks to Art in the Age of Reproduction for showering my inbox this morning with Times New Viking's new limited edition poster & tee. $28 bux; I think I'm going to have to splurge on this one."

Posted by Nicole

Hey, Philadelphians, listen up! This Saturday night, you most likely do NOT have something more fun to do than attend this event:

Paine's World Party, a celebration in support of The Paine's Park Project, will be thrown from 9pm - 1am at the Urban Outfitters Facility in The Philadelphia Naval Yard.

The Paine's Park Project is a movement/revolution/resolution to bring a 2.5 acre skate park to Center City Philadelphia.

Tickets are $22 online and $20 in-store. They will grant you an evening of music, art, dancing, food, and drink!

Exhibiting Artists include:

Shepard Fairey

Andrew Jeffrey Wright (Art in the Age Artist!)

& Adam Wallacavage (Art in the Age Artist!)

Musicians include:

Yah Mos Def

Rock Tits

Broadzilla

Eymynd

DJ Brandon

Events include:

Pro Skate Demo via Nocturnal Skateboards

AND...free shuttle buses will be running every 30 minutes from various parts of the city! So get your ass over there!!!

For more info, visit the Paine's World Party website.

Posted by Robin

The folks over at 20 Jazz Funk Greats, one of the largest music blogs, post about the limited edition Times New Viking collaboration tee, available on pre-sale now on the Art in the Age site and left us with a little extra flattery.

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"We mentioned Times New Viking above, well, they have teamed up with the excellent folks at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction to bring us some t-shirts which are ace and true (hippies are the new punks, punks are the new avant garde, and new wave hippies should listen to Psychedelic Horseshit), get them here before they run out! (the Paper Rad ones are also well sweet, of course)"

Posted by Nicole

PRE-SALE! PRE-SALE! PRE-SALE! The Times New Viking Tee was featured in the Fashion Forward section of the City Paper and what they say is true! Only 125 of these gems, so get them while you can. The Tee is offered on pre-sale at the Art in the Age site.

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Fashion Forward

by Monica Weymouth

Times New Viking Tee

Released Thu., June 26, $28 at artintheage.com

According to Times New Viking, "The hippies are back & they're punks!" Or at least that's what the Ohio-based rockers proclaim on the new T-shirt they've designed for local label Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. They've only cranked out 125 of the hot pink-and-gray tees, which are available starting today while they're in town for a show at Johnny Brenda's. If we weren't undeniably wary of hippies, punks and all that is associated with their clothing, we'd be fighting you for one.

Posted by Nicole

Dear David Byrne,

This Sunday, I sat on a no-less-than fetid bus to Brooklyn to play your building. And by this I mean, to experience "Playing The Building," your collaborative installation with Creative Time.

Posted by Robin

Philebrity's Phasionista reviews Art in the Age new collaboration tees with No Age and Times New Viking! Take a look at the entire review below!

Phashionista: T-shirts Are Back & They?re Awesome

Hometown t-shirt makers, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, have teamed up the lo-fi rock band Times New Viking for its latest venture. Since their 2006 inception, the folks at AAMR have been working with a smattering of local artists to create shirt designs that feature subversive messages. This one proclaims that ?THE HIPPIES ARE BACK & THEY?RE PUNKS!? We?re not really sure what it means and if it?s even true, but we like that they use words that sound countercultural. The shirt will come out just in time for the band?s upcoming stint at Johnny Brenda?s on June 26th. [Papermag.com]

Are you a vampy gladiator? Yeah? Well, we have just the shoe for you. [Jkarma]

And, if you feel like splurging to reward yourself for making it through a tough week, may we suggest heading over to Lisa M. Reisman Exclusives to stock on some baubles.

Posted by Nicole

Shirt Find reviews the new AITA masterpiece we like to call the Walrus tee. Check out the blog!

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The Walrus

Woah there big guy. Thats a nice looking Walrus you got there. This big guy comes in the gray on gray as shown and also in a crazy turquoise on turquoise . This shirt is limited and is available starting tomorrow. Hurry be the first to get one.

Posted by Nicole

Hide Your Arms Blog posts about our New Walrus tee and our Creative Director Ben Woodward. Take a look at the whole story below

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Walrus Music Blog by Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

AITA have dropped a new tee and it is a shout-out to a music blog from Philly that apparently has really big teeth. As I?ve mentioned before this week, I?m a bit pushed for time writing posts, so I?m going to hand you over to the rather eloquent folks at AITA to do the job for me.

Art In The Age Creative Director Ben Woodward gives a shout out to Philly?s music blog with really big teeth, The Walrus.( http://www.walrusmusicblog.com) The big, music loving personality of this oversized and lovable friend of the sea is expressed perfectly in Ben?s larger-than-life illustration. Available in two color palettes: ?Lo Fi? Gray-on-Gray or ?Experimental? Turquoise-on-Turquoise?

The tees will be available in men?s sizes Small-Large for $28 and will be released tomorrow [oh, sorry, guess I probably should have posted this yesterday?]. Art in the Age will also be giving away 3 tees to 3 lucky winners in the next 3 weeks!

I?d usually think that grey on grey is the blandest colourway possible, but its actually pretty cool in this case.

Posted by Nicole

This month, Art In The Age features Alex Lukas, a Massachusetts-born, Philadelphia-immigrated artist. Lukas is quite the prolific printmaker/painter. Not to mention, a 'zine "publisher" extraordinaire! Get the details, courtesy of Ben Woodward...

Ben Woodward: Who are you and where do you come from?

Alex Lukas: I'm Alex Lukas. I'm from Cambridge, Massachusetts. After living in a few other cities over a few years, I moved here to Philadelphia mostly because a space opened up at 1026 and my buddy Will invited me to fill it.

Tell me a little about the "New" England now that you live in Philadelphia. What is the hardest thing to get used to?

Well, I have only been here since October, so I haven't experienced the Philadelphia summers yet, and so far I'm not too happy about the humidity. We get it bad back in Boston too, and every summer I forget how much I hate it, but this year I get to blame it on how far south Philadelphia is. But somewhat more seriously, people in Cambridge, Boston, and New England as a whole take a great deal of pride in being "a local." If you're not from there, you never really will be, or it takes a good 15 years to feel like you know the place and belong. I get the sense that Philadelphia is similar, it is a "locals town." Only I'm not from here, and I'm still very conscious of that.

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The blog Fashion Guru wrote about the upcoming release of the Art in the Age and Time New Viking collaboration Tee. You can also listen to tunes while you read the story on Fashion Guru !

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ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION + TIMES NEW VIKING = NEW, COOL T-SHIRT!

Innovative, Philly-based T-shirt company, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, has teamed up with up-and-coming lo-fi rock band Times New Viking for its latest T-shirt collab. Since its 2006 launch, The folks at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction have been working with various (mostly local) artists to create fresh/interesting designs that don?t submit to the pressures that plague mainstream imagery. Times New Viking chose to have their T-shirt adorned with the all-caps statment: ?THE HIPPIES ARE BACK & THEY?RE PUNKS!? The band is currently on tour and the shirt's June 26th release coincides with their Philadelphia date at Johnny Brenda?s. In July, Art in the Age is releasing a T-shirt with L.A. scene stealers No Age. So, all you T-shirt-aphiles out there: get excited.

Posted by Nicole

Enough said.

So check out these skate-related art happenings...

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Fat Seagull: A UK Blog About The World of T-Shirts covers the release (today!) of The Walrus Tee, featuring original artwork from Ben Woodward. It is the first in a series of music/art collaboration shirts for Summer 2008. The Fat Seagull says:

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NEW ?WALRUS? TEE DESIGNED BY BEN WOODWARD TO BE RELEASED TOMORROW FROM ART IN THE AGE

Art In The Age Creative Director Ben Woodward gives a shout out to Philly?s music blog with really big teeth, The Walrus. The big, music loving personality of this oversized and lovable friend of the sea is expressed perfectly in Ben?s larger-than-life illustration. Available in two color palettes: ?Lo Fi? Gray-on-Gray or ?Experimental? Turquoise-on-Turquoise?

The tees will be available in men?s sizes Small-Large for $28 and will be released tomorrow. Art in the Age will also be giving away 3 tees to 3 lucky winners in the next 3 weeks! See attached photo of the Lo-Fi Walrus tee.

Posted by Robin

I recently had the great honor and pleasure of attending a Maurice Sendak retrospective show at the historic Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia's Fitler Square neighborhood.

Previous to my visit, I was only really aware of Sendak via Where The Wild Things Are, his most famous children's story. Please excuse my tacky diction, but Sendak on Sendak: There's A Mystery There was really an "experience." Each of the four gallery spaces covered a different aspect of Sendak's life and who he was as an artist and concerned citizen of the world: Kids - Innocence and Experience, Beasts of Burden, Influences, and Into The Forest (settings).

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Hey hey hey! Did you hear?! This summer, we're about to premiere two new hawt collaborative shirt designs with Lo-Fi rockers, Times New Viking, and LA Punk-stars, NO AGE! PAPER Magazine's Blog is just as psyched on it as we are! Check it out...

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Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction + Times New Viking = New, Cool T-Shirt!

By Sean Keenan

Innovative, Philly-based T-shirt company, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, has teamed up with up-and-coming lo-fi rock band Times New Viking for its latest T-shirt collab. Since its 2006 launch, The folks at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction have been working with various (mostly local) artists to create fresh/interesting designs that don?t submit to the pressures that plague mainstream imagery. Times New Viking chose to have their T-shirt adorned with the all-caps statment: ?THE HIPPIES ARE BACK & THEY?RE PUNKS!? The band is currently on tour and the shirt's June 26th release coincides with their Philadelphia date at Johnny Brenda?s. In July, Art in the Age is releasing a T-shirt with L.A. scene stealers No Age. So, all you T-shirt-aphiles out there: get excited.

Posted by Robin

This past weekend, I laid out a challenge for myself: Attend every art & music event in Philly that sounds interesting and don't dare wimp out and sit in the AC and read.

The Results: I WIN The Self-Imposed Philly Arts & Music Challenge!!!

Please refer to last week's post for a quick refresher before we dive in. Ready? Set? GO!

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One of the most interesting tracks we've seen come out of Radiohead's Remix Contest is this video by electronic musician (and obvious technology fetishist) James Houston:

Though it takes a while to build, he ends up with a really interesting take on the remix. Instead of dropping the files straight into Garage Band and throwing some tinny loops over them, Houston reconstructs each track with bits of antiquated technology, resulting in a video equally reminiscent of the Fischli/Weiss extraordinary machine The Way Things Go and the halcyon days of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Particularly inspired is the use of an array of old hard drives to reproduce Thom Yorke's silky voice and Little Mermaid-esque croon.

And in case you haven't seen it, make sure you check out the slo-mo-fest that is Radiohead's official video for Nude (Scotch Mist Version).

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A Special Thank You to A. Vierkant over at daguerreotypical.org for these musings!

Posted by Robin

Skate demon Bam Margera and artist Jeff Schaller, present The Art of the T, their latest collaboration. The show, featuring shirts from Art in the Age, as well as an exclusive Bam/Schaller design, opens tonight from 5:30-8:30 at Art Trust Gallery in West Chester, PA.

Check out these shots of the show, courtesy of Jeff Schaller.

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Art in the Age artist Thom Lessner, of David Lee Nagel shirt fame, is back at the proverbial drawing board! This time, it's a new parody-illustration of Mayor Michael Nutter, the new political face of Philadelphia, set against a backdrop of our Brotherly and Lovely cityscape.

And what's that I spy? A portrait of Hall & Oates on a building in the background?! Oh, hell yes.

Lessner created the illustration for the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corportation. It is featured on tote bags for the annual convention of The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies that commenced yesterday in Philly. Over 500 journalists will attend the event!

Posted by Robin

It's summertime, and Philly livin' is easy. Which means that it's high time for me to get out in the fresh air! This weekend, beginning with First Friday Gallery Openings, I'm challenging myself to make it out to every art opening/festival and local music jam that I have been "penciling in" and promising myself (and others!) to attend. Here is a proposed schedule of art/music haps:

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Many thanks to a co-worker for this hawt art/music tip!

This past weekend in Lower Manhattan, Creative Time premiered "Playing the Building," a nine-thousand square foot site-specific sculptural work by David Byrne of Talking Heads fame. "Playing the Building" subsumes the Battery Maritime Building with an organ that derives its sounds from various interactions between cables, objects, and the architecture and plumbing of the space itself.

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This week I find myself falling in love with many material goods. This statement sounds awfully trite, but the designer/artmaker part of my brain will never cease to be enthralled with tactility and objecthood. And never more so than when I first held in my wee hands, the press kit for a new Seattle-based band...

So I would now like to unabashedly declare my love for Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, and award them the prize for Best Hand-Made Musical Press Kit. They are a complete package, the whole shebang! The Five Member troupe is comprised of a married couple, a 13-year-old boy, and two assorted bearded men. Here is a further breakdown:

THE GOODS: A promo copy of the band's first release, Weepy EP, with what appears to be a neon spray-paint gradient, was housed in a hand-stitched pouch of brightly colored felt. The package included glitter stickers of snack foods, a handful of toy soldiers, and a lovely band poster. Textiles and toys are the way to my heart!

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The Opera Delaware Gallery = The Place To Be on Friday, June 6th!

The opening for Come & Get Some, a group show featuring Chris Pastras, Clint Peterson, Squindo, Willy Akers, Becky Schmidt, Arabella Proffer, Dave Fox, Brooke Somers, Sierra DuJour, and Joe Castro will take place from 5:30 - 8:30 pm. The evening will continue with Refresh! the official Art Loop after party. Downstairs, a small street skateboarding area will be set up. The night is free and open to the public with a cash bar for adults.

And the best part of it all? A portion of all artwork sold will go toward the construction of a Wilmington skate plaza!

The Opera Delaware Gallery is located at 4 South Poplar Street, Wilmington, DE.

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Check out the profile for AITA tee designer Bill McRight in the June issue of JUXTAPOZ!

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Linoleum block printing out. Out of style, out of date, and to do it you have to be a little out of your mind. But as with many antiquated artistic techniques, there are a few practitioners holding it down and moving it forward. Bill McRight is one of those few who will take the chisel over the mouse any day, putting in hours to carve a block where others are quick to click "Import to Illustrator." "The level of craft that goes into creating a block and printing it is really appealing," McRight says. "There is a tradition behind it, even if it is a dying one." Publishing his prints through such shops as Cannonball Press in Brooklyn, Evil Prints in St Louis, and working for Saturday skateboards, McRight is currently a member of Space 1026 in Philadelphia but headed west to St Louis soon, where he is sure to unveil a thing or two to the Show Me state. - Alex Lukas

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IN A NUTSHELL: David Horvitz, a current MFA at Bard College, will send you all sorts of random objects, photos, and forms of documentation for sums of money ranging from $1 to $31,000+. He even accepts progressive donations.

I want to be his friend immediately.

But I will probably have to pay for it via PayPal. Damn.

Check out his rather ridiculous, rather fabulous website entitled "THINGS FOR SALE THAT I WILL MAIL YOU." Even more intriguing is the page of things that were sold.

Here, paraphrased, are a few of the items for sale:

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MEGAWORDS Magazine, the art/lit/crit brainchild of Art in the Age Artist Dan Murphy and co-founder Anthony Smyrski, is in print for its third year!

Congratulations, Friends In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction!

The most recent issue, Issue Eight, is now available for your perusing pleasure. It is comprised of 64 deliciously oversized black-and-white pages with a full-color cover.

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Fantastic Blognanza posted a clever review of our oldie but goodie "Press" Tee. And while you are checking out their review come look at the rest of our goods!

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Art in the Age?s New Releases

Published by Greg on May 27, 2008

For relatively old values of the word ?new?, our friends over at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction have a slew of new t-shirts you should take a gander at. Here: let me help you in your gandering pursuits with this digital reproduction of an image from their site!

Now, I?ve got to be honest with you here about something: If you click on that image and go to the shirt page on Art in the Age?s site, you will find that the man wearing that t-shirt does not look particularly excited about it. In fact, he looks a little depressed. I might go so far as to say that he is glowering.

Perhaps he is just tired after a full day?s work of slaving