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The Bishop Anthony M. Pilla Program in Italian American Studies at John Carroll University will host an evening with Steven Litt, art and architecture critic for THE PLAIN DEALER, on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in the LSC Conference Room on the campus of John Carroll University. Litt’s lecture, “Il Genio Italico: 20th Century Italian Visual Culture,” will highlight the great 20th century Italian artists, architects, and designers and how they have contributed to world culture. He will also discuss how Italian cities are embracing a new internationalism in architecture and urban design, creating a tension with the past. |
WHO:
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Steven
Litt has been the art and architecture critic of THE PLAIN DEALER since
1991. He joined the newspaper after covering art and architecture for The
News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1984 to 1991. Litt holds
a bachelor’s degree in art from Brown University, and a master’s
degree in journalism from Columbia University. As a working journalist,
he studied architecture and planning at North Carolina State University,
and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he spent a year as a
Michigan Journalism Fellow. In addition to THE PLAIN DEALER, Litt writes
for ARTnews, Metropolis, Planning and other magazines, and is a frequent
guest on public radio WCPN 90.3 FM. In 2004 and 2005, Litt was named Best
Critic in Ohio by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. |
WHERE:
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LSC
Conference Room, D.J. Lombardo Student Center |
| WHEN: | Wednesday,
November 8, 2006 7:30 p.m. |
CONTACT:
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The Bishop Anthony M. Pilla Program in Italian American Studies, 216.397.4558 |