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Contact: Jodi Hanel jodi@exitart.org

EXIT ART ANNOUNCES YEAR-LONG SERIES OF EVENTS

ADDRESSING CRITICAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART


THE PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY

First Event

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Conversations on Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll



Organized by Carlo McCormick, Senior Editor, Paper magazine



Saturday October 28, 12 noon-6 pm at EXIT ART

475 Tenth Avenue (36 Street) NYC


SEX 12-1:30 pm
Moderator Brandon Holley, Executive Editor, Jane magazine
Panelists include: Sweet Action Girls, Jack Pierson, E. V. Day
DRUGS 2-3:30 pm
Moderator Bobby Black, Senior Editor, High Times
Panelists include: Alex Grey, Allyson Grey
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL 4-5:30 pm
Moderator Jon Durbin, Managing Editor, Paper Magazine
Panelists include: Paul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky

$15 for all three panels; advance ticket sales available at
212-966-7745 x15
Food and beverages available in Exit Art’s cafe.

What’s Wrong With This Picture? is the first in a daylong symposium=

consisting of three panels organized by Carlo McCormick. McCormick
hand selected the moderators for their affiliations as senior editors
at key publications that deal with the topics, panelists were chosen
for their work as cultural producers. In the words of organizer
Carlo McCormick, What’s Wrong With This Picture is about “t=
he
unholy trinity of what mainstream America has always vilified about
youth culture. In this case the intention is to have a conversation
with three people who are in some form of cultural production. For
me, it's a way that we can address some of the political-social-
religious issues tearing us apart in a less heated context of the
arts.”

The Purpose & Function of Art in the 21st Century, will be a
quarterly series of events, panels, discussions and performances that
address critical issues in the diverse communities of the
contemporary art world. Each event will be organized by different
curators, critics and cultural producers, who will determine the
themes and the format, giving each program a unique perspective. The
second event in this series will be organized by Sarah Lewis,
Curatorial Assistant in the Photography Department at The Museum of
Modern Art.

Carlo McCormick is a pop culture critic and curator living in NYC.
He is the author of numerous books on contemporary art, and has
lectured extensively at universities in the US and Europe. His
writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, High Times, Spin,
Vice and countless other magazines. He has curated exhibitions for
the Bronx Museum of Art, New York University, the Queens Museum of
Art and the Woodstock Center for Photography. McCormick is Senior
Editor of Paper magazine.

CONTACT: Jodi Hanel, 212-966-7745 x22, jodi@exitart.org



Jodi Hanel
Associate Curator
Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-966-7745 x22
http://www.exitart.org

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