
E. Tage Larsen, Maybird, 2020, Bricolage, paper and acrylic medium, 6 x 3 1/2 inches (very low res image, unfortunately)
E. Tage Larsen, Maybird, 2020, Bricolage, paper and acrylic medium, 6 x 3 1/2 inches (very low res image, unfortunately)
This was the last of the 90s tape paintings. They could be, and this was, very dimensional which doesn’t reproduce at all. The elements of lost and found form and line moved from here to the bricolage pieces in paper.
E. Tage Larsen, Untitled, Bricolage, paper and acrylic medium, 7 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches
E. Tage Larsen, Untitled (Maybird), Bricolage, paper and acrylic medium, 3 1/2 x 6 inches
Originally published – JUNE 26, 2005 Robert Smithson, “Terminal Area Concepts,” Tibbets, Abbot, McCarthy, and Stratton, c.1966 Robert Smithson’s distant, mythic, Spiral Jetty is his most familiar artwork. However, it was nearly eclipsed by an earlier and far more commercial proposal to develop the “Dallas Fort Worth Regional Airport” as…
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…
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…
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…
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 Lippert…
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…
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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 go…
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