There is Only One Direction: James K. Baxter and Colin McCahon

There is Only One Direction: James K. Baxter and Colin McCahon

Panel Discussion

Past event

Philip Carter Family Auditorium

Learn how the friendship between two of New Zealand’s cultural titans, James K. Baxter and Colin McCahon, influenced their work.

Speakers include poet, author and painter Gregory O’Brien, Professor Paul Millar of the University of Canterbury and 2012 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer’s Fellowship awardee Peter Simpson, who curated the 1996 exhibition Candles in a Dark Room: James K. Baxter and Colin McCahon for Auckland Art Gallery.