The New Yorker’s Gopnik to deliver 2013 Windmueller Lecture at VCU

By Leila Ugincius and James McCue

Best-selling author Adam Gopnik, a contributing writer for The New Yorker, will speak at Virginia Commonwealth University on Sept. 26.

Gopnik is this year’s featured guest speaker for the Windmueller Lecture Series at the VCU School of the Arts. Gopnik’s lecture, “Doing Things and Doubting Them,” will begin at 5 p.m. at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. Admission is free and open to the public. Seating is limited so attendees are advised to arrive early.

Gopnik joined The New Yorker in 1986, becoming its art critic the following year. In the 1990s, he co-wrote the book “High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture” based on an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, and wrote the Paris Journal column for The New Yorker after moving to France. Since then, he has returned to New York and authored several books, including his most recent, “Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York.”

Gopnik has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.

The Windmueller Series was established by a gift from the estate of Otti Y. Windmueller. Windmueller earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from VCU and taught fashion design for 29 years at the VCU School of the Arts. The Windmueller Series annually hosts prominent national experts to share their expertise in the arts with VCU students and the Richmond community. Past Windmueller speakers have included Paola Antonelli, Steven Holl, Paul Goldberger, Kevin Kling, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lawrence Weschler and Lewis Hyde.

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