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Other Criteria, the arts-based publishing company and store founded by Damien Hirst will inaugurate a regular lecture and screening series at their New York flagship location. Author and critic Carlo McCormick will kickoff the series on October 28th with a lecture on Art & Intoxication, that will examine the parallels and intersections of “getting high” and art making.

McCormick promises to “run riot through the ages” with a talk that will uncover and assess the role and impact of substance use and abuse on the creative output of cave painters, classical Greco-Roman and Egyptian practitioners, as well as established art stars ranging from Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Bosch through Steichen, Picasso, and Warhol to Chris Burden, Jeff Koons and many, many more. According to the author “Few things seem more endemic to the human condition than the creation of art and the search for intoxication.”