‘The greatest art critic of our time’ – Jonathan Jones
On Sunday 13th October, The Parlour at Sketch will host Café Intellectual: Reading Robert Hughes. A Sunday evening salon with selected readings and reflections, screenings and sound bites in honour of the controversial figure hailed as ‘the greatest critic of our time’, Robert Hughes.
Curated by The Field and presented in association with the Royal Academy of Arts’ in honour of their highly anticipated ‘Australia’ exhibition. The evening salon will include presentations from a number of Britain’s most esteemed art-critics and artists, whose work has been affected by Hughes’ legacy.
An array of speakers have been invited to toast the work of RA Honorary Fellow Robert Hughes, who was once described by Peter Carey as ‘Australia’s Dante’. Speakers include curator Paul Bayley, artist Dan Davis, Oxford film and television creative director Nicholas Kent, artist Agatha Gothe-Snape and academic and artist Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.
The bar team at sketch will be creating cocktails inspired by Hughes’ work. Guests will be able to sample ‘Fatal Shore’ and ‘Shot of the New’ which have heady blends, evoking Hughes’s famous tones.
“They need a place where they can go to meet and drink and talk, preen themselves or simply sit alone with a book … the cafe was the opera of the dissenters. It was also the marketplace of ideas.” – Robert Hughes
Café Intellectual: Reading Robert Hughes will be held at The Parlour at sketch, on Sunday 13th October, 6:30pm – 8pm