Pop Culture Critic to Give Public Lecture on January 13

January 6, 2005

Carlo McCormick, a popular culture critic and curator from New York City, will give a public lecture at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 13, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium of the Palmer Museum of Art. The lecture is part of the School of Visual Arts’ Anderson Endowment Lecture Series. McCormick is the juror for the undergraduate art show at Zoller Gallery, on display from January 24 through February 16, 2005.

McCormick is the author of numerous books, monographs and catalogues on contemporary art and artists, and has lectured and taught extensively at universities and colleges around the United States. He has recently curated exhibitions in New York City, Pittsburgh and Tampa, Florida. McCormick is currently working on The Downtown Show: The New York Scene 1974–84 for the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, New York University, and a book on the subject forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

His writing has appeared in Aperture, Art in America, Art News, Artforum, Camera Austria, HighTimes, Spin, Tokion and Vice, among other magazines. McCormick is senior editor of Paper Magazine, and New York editor of Juxtapoz.

For updates on the spring 2005 Anderson Endowment lecture schedule, live-casts, and an online archive, visit www.sva.psu.edu/anderson.html.

Contact: Ann Shostrom, ams26@psu.edu or 814.863.9701.