Modern Dutch Artists Dutch modern art is important for pioneering abstraction, creating the first modern art market with accessible secular subjects, and reflecting Dutch global power, trade, and societal changes, influencing everything from design to architecture From Amsterdam Impressionists to Piet Mondrian and DeStijl, to the members of the CoBrA movement, this lecture will give […]
You saw the Film - here is the TRUE Story! The real story of German-Jewish refugee, Howard ("Howie") Triest, who fled Nazi Germany and went on to become the only translator to the U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley assigned to investigate the mental capacity of Hermann Goring in Nuremberg prison prior to and during the Nuremberg Trial. He […]
in conversation with Anne Michaels Joseph Kertes is a writer who escaped from Hungary with his family to Canada after the revolution of 1956. He studied English at York University and the University of Toronto, where he was encouraged in his writing by Irving Layton and Marshall McLuhan. His chat today is with celebrated novelist […]
In conversation with Terry Fallis - his life as a writer & his latest Novel “The Marionette” What if the perfect political candidate was completely fake? In “The Marionette”, a cynical columnist invents an imaginary politician as a joke—only to see him become a national sensation through social media and media hype. Witty, fast-paced, and […]
