BMAC hosts bookclub-style discussion

The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) hosts a bookclub-style discussion of Claire Dederer’s “Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma,” on Thursday, April 9, at 5:30 pm. The event is part of the museum’s new series BMAC Reads: conversations about books about art. Admission is free for BMAC members, $10 for everyone else. Participants are expected to have read the book beforehand. In this book, Dederer asks: Can readers love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Miles Davis or Picasso? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, “Monsters” has incited a cultural conversation about whether and how we can separate artist from art. The April 9 conversation at BMAC will be moderated by Elizabeth Catlin. A resident of Dummerston, Catlin is a board member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival and Vermont Community Foundation, and is the immediate past board chair at the Brattleboro Retreat and current chair of the national board for Girls on the Run.

Space is limited and advance registration is required. To register go to brattleboromuseum.org or call (802) 257-0124, ext. 101.