E. Tage Larsen

Nov 23

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Portrait of the Artist as Correspondent [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – JULY 04, 2005 The Summer issue of "Art on Paper" displays the fruit of a simple experiment. A young staffer (either real or fictive) sends a letter to a bunch of artists explaining the problem of being young and new to New York, with many of the...

Nov 20

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Suffering from Comparison [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – MAY 25, 2005 Now grossly over-magnified, marketing is pivotal in exaggerating choice in western culture. It’s a tired refrain to remind that branders and advertisers gorge you on implausible and improbable variants of things you already own or likely never needed — a buffet of attrition culminating...

Nov 19

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Lost in Tallman Park

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This is the view “back”, after little racing bike with 23mm road tires and I fought in vain against a leaf strewn hiking path in an attempt to find the paved “bike path”. The hiking path dead ended and me and all the carbon fiber in the world had…

Nov 18

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Relevant, Authentic and Intimate [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – JUNE 16, 2005 Despite the marvelous technology that colors our lives, we persist in perpetuating an anachronistic mindset. According to Ron Pompei we might as well be living in the 19th Century. Our growth is subsumed by a culture that privileges an ever-narrowing worldview. Ron Pompei is...

Nov 18

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Making Light [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – June 13, 2005 Though you can draw a diagram for the different axis’s that humor works on, you can’t really sit down and tell somebody what “funny” is. Humor is contextual, inexplicable and personal. Bob Mankoff has been working on a research project with the University of...

Nov 17

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Death in Venice, pt. 2 – Douglas Rushkoff Revisits the Art of Persuasion [Placement Archives]

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originally published – APRIL 17, 2005 This is our second installment looking at Douglas Rushkoff’s "Advertising: The Persuaders", a talk hosted by the Department of Culture and Communication at NYU. Also in attendance were: Mark Crispin Miller (author and NYU professor), Keith Reinhard (chairman of DDB Worldwide) and Barbara...

Nov 17

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Places of Everyday Suffering [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 A few years ago, I wrote a memoriam of my experiences on 9/11, in an attempt to meet head-on my anger and melancholy. This fourth anniversary reminds me of that history: the days of confusion; months of sorrow; and years of daily life that...

Nov 16

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One Hundred Years Towards Hell [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – June 05, 2005 At two and a half miles wide and three-quarters of a mile deep, the Bingham Copper Mine is an extraordinary hole. It is so large, in fact, that it is one of only a few manmade objects viewable from the Shuttle in orbit....

Nov 16

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Par Avian

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From 2004 to 2014, I ran a private mixtape collective for a group of 50 friends, all music savants. It was a group that weathered the maturation of online music from the shadowy shores of Napster and Limewire to the gilded halls of Apple's one-click music store. We were a...

Nov 16

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The Twelve Days of Cary Grant, 2016

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“ Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant There are many ways in which I'm an anachronism and perhaps a lynchpin to that particular house of cards is a life long fascination with Cary Grant: a matinee idol comprised of dark, suave...

Nov 15

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A Practicable Reform [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – JUNE 03, 2005 The image you see here is from a manuscript auction a few months back. It's been resting in limbo because I keep thinking it’s from a Sotheby’s sale in March, and that i'll find the source material. No matter how many times I...

Nov 15

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Robert Smithson’s Boiling Curve [Placement Archives]

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Originally published – AUGUST 18, 2005 “Through the vaporous abstraction of Box Elder County Utah, I beheld a wide expanse of lake whose waters were so bloody a hue as to bring to mind a landscape of unspeakable carnage. Yet at the same time a voluptuous calm prevailed. A voluminous...

Portrait of the Artist as Correspondent [Placement Archives]

Suffering from Comparison [Placement Archives]

Lost in Tallman Park

Relevant, Authentic and Intimate [Placement Archives]

Making Light [Placement Archives]

Death in Venice, pt. 2 – Douglas Rushkoff Revisits the Art of Persuasion [Placement Archives]

Places of Everyday Suffering [Placement Archives]

One Hundred Years Towards Hell [Placement Archives]

Par Avian

The Twelve Days of Cary Grant, 2016

A Practicable Reform [Placement Archives]

Robert Smithson’s Boiling Curve [Placement Archives]

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