American Culture Critic Carlo McCormick talks Youth Culture, Situationist Strategies and the Privatization of Public Spaces

Carlo McCormick met up with Amon Focus in a kitchen deep in the Lower East Side to talk about art, culture and history. In this episode they talk about youth culture, owning your history, privatization of public spaces, huge cultural shifts, Emory Douglas, Jamie Reed and the broken window theory.

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Carlo McCormick is an American culture critic and curator living in New York City. He is the author of numerous books, monographs and catalogues on contemporary art and artists.

McCormick lectures and teaches extensively at universities and colleges around the United States on popular culture and art. His writing has appeared in Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory, Aperture, Art in America, Art News, Artforum, Camera Austria, High Times, Spin, Tokion, Vice and other magazines. McCormick is Senior Editor of Paper. 

Show Notes for Part 1

• Making Mistakes 
• Cey Adams
• Lower East Side
• Art Critic 
• Cultural Critic
• Great Body of Losers
• Lots of Poets
• Crisis of Confidence
• East Village Eye
• Paper Magazine
• Youth Culture 
• Own Your Own History
• Rammellzee
• Advocate for the Art
• Roberta Smith
• “This town has never been easy…”
• Huge Cultural Shifts
• Bushwick Collective
• Value Tax and the Subway
• Pratt Institute
• Broken Window Theory
• 2 World Trade Center Murals
• Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
• “Slouching Toward Avenue D”
• Art in American 
• Proverbial 15 Minutes of Fame
• Looking for the Big Chump
• Jane Dickson
• Jane Jacobs
• Jeremiah Moss
• Robert Moses 
• Gary Dennis talks Real New York History and the Films You Need to See
• Reinstalling Masstransiscope by Bill Brand
• MASSTRANSISCOPE
• Times Square Mural Mural by Roy Lichtenstein
• Bus Rider: Unemployment & Retired
• Privatization of Public Space
• Official Tone vs Unofficial Tones
• Jamie Reed
• The Society of the Spectacle
• Malcolm McLaren
• Situationist Strategies
• New Museum 
• Emory Douglas: Designing Justice
• Ivan Chermayeff
• Creating the Instant Classic
• Eric Haze
• Repetition and Saturation 
• Eric White
• Ryan McGinness
• Revolt
• The History of MTV and Their Logo
• Eyes on the Street

Show Notes for Part 2

• Urban Youth Marketing 
• Street Wear
• The Pop Shop
• T-Shirt as A Canvas
• Clark Gable
• Arturo Vega
• David Lee Roth
• Van Halen 
• Shawn Stussy
• Triple Five Soul
• Alex Corporan
• James Jebbia
• Sneaker Pimps
• Complex Sole Collector 
• Where’d You Get Those?
• Bobbito Garcia
• The Tipping Point
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Jeffrey Deitch
• The Dutch Tulip Craze
• Tulip Mania | 3 Minute History
• Collecting is about feeding of passions
• Imelda Marcos
• NuArt Talk
• Werner Herzog
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• JPEG Collector
• Art Forum
• The Circus and Clowns 
• Carnivalesque
• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern – Kaws
• Crumb
• Fritz the Cat
• Will Eisner
• Thor
• Art World vs. Art Market
• KAWS
• David Zwirner
• Art Student’s Should Exchange Work
• “You’re as good as your last show…”
• Banksy
• Jo Brooks
• Ben Eine
• Paul Insect