Doodles Not to be Marginalized
Although we have always been told not to scribble in books, English professor Heather Jackson is glad some people have. She has spent 15 years examining annotations left in books of all kinds and says...
View ArticleMore Than Meets the Eye
Researchers with the department of ophthalmology at the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital have discovered that glaucoma – a leading cause of blindness – affects not only the eyes, but...
View ArticleA Good Time to Say Goodbye
As I write this column for the last time, my colleagues and I are deeply engaged with the exhilarating task of allocating our share of the new Canada Research Chairs program. This wonderful new federal...
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Cross-Reference
This intricately carved cross, produced in northern Italy, is made from two pieces of wood. Although there is a definite Byzantine influence here, the cross is certainly of Western origin, as witnessed...
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Zeal
William Holman Hunt’s arresting portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk depicts him as a latter-day Christian prophet. The painting, owned by the National Gallery of Canada, is of particular interest to...
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The True North?
From 1918 to 1922, various members of the Group of Seven, seeking “Nordic” painting spots farther afield than Algonquin Park, accompanied Lawren Harris on his so-called “boxcar trips” to the Algoma...
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A Huge Presence
It was the eerie and otherworldly Arizona desert that American photographer Lee Miller chose as the setting for her 1946 double portrait of surrealist artist Max Ernst and his wife, Dorothea Tanning....
View ArticleThe Art of Change
Metamorphosis: a transformation from an immature to an adult form. If you will allow us to speak about the University of Toronto Art Centre in zoological terms for the moment, what was once a tadpole...
View ArticleDid Someone Say ‘Eureka’?
So, it’s been a while since you graduated. Could be even a few decades. You’ve been around the block a few times, maybe started or bossed a few companies. But things don’t have the same savour they...
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Of Murder and Magic
The University of Toronto’s midtown campus is solidly 19th and 20th century, yet its neo-Gothic and red-brick structures have somehow provided the impetus for amazing flights of fancy about medieval...
View ArticleThe Cast of Presidents
The University of Toronto began life as a hook in the mind of the unbending immigrant Scot John Strachan, an Anglican priest and a titanic figure in the history of Upper Canada. He was succeeded by a...
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Decade of the Dynamo
As far as Rob Prichard is concerned, his immediate predecessor as president of the University of Toronto, George Connell, stepped wrong just once. That was when Connell changed the office that the...
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