In Conversation: Chris Hammer on The River (VIC)
Tue 08 July at 6:00PM
Readings Hawthorn, 687 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122
Join us to hear Chris Hammer in conversation about his bestselling classic book, The River.
There’s a long history of artists behaving badly, from Picasso and Caravaggio to Donald Friend and Miles Davis. Dennis Nona has recently made headlines, as has Chuck Close, but then there’s Kevin Spacey, Michael Jackson, VS Naipaul, Alfred Hitchcock and Ezra Pound.
To be creative, it’s often suggested, is to be prone to eccentricity, transgression, madness, addiction and excess. But we can no longer excuse artists from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. Join Ashleigh Wilson, arts editor of The Australian and author of Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (2016) and On artists (2019) and John Saxby, editor of Look magazine, as they discuss this notion and what becomes of the work that remains if we denounce the artist.
Books sales and a signing will be available after the event.
See https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/artists-behaving-badly/
Tue 08 July at 6:00PM
Readings Hawthorn, 687 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122
Join us to hear Chris Hammer in conversation about his bestselling classic book, The River.
Thu 10 July at 6:30PM
Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road Tusmore, SA 5065
Learn more about author Chris Hammer's prize-winning non-fiction book about the Murray Darling Basin.