Jan 27, 2017
TV Review: Medici: Masters of Florence (Season 1)
Netflix’s Medici: Masters of Florence is a superb and riveting costume drama about the powerful Medici family, de facto rulers of...
Oct 28, 2016
Film Review: Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Mona Lisa Smile stars an ensemble cast led by Julia Roberts who plays a 1950s art history professor at elite New England ladies’ college,...
Jun 3, 2016
Exhibition Review: On Your Mark II and Visualizing a Culture for Strangers at the Varley Art Gallery
I was pleased to catch the Artist Talk with Ed Pien on May 29, prior to the opening of the Varley Art Gallery’s summer exhibitions, which...
Oct 28, 2015
Film Review: Mr. Turner (2014)
Mr. Turner is an astounding biographical film depicting the final twenty-five years of acclaimed British Romantic painter Joseph Mallord...
Aug 21, 2015
Film Review: Hero (2002)
Hero is Rashomon 2.0, taking the basic idea of multiple story retellings and refining it with epic vistas, beautifully choreographed...
May 16, 2015
Favourite Film Friday: The Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)
Partly a fictional romance and mostly a study of life in city of Delft in the 1600s, The Girl With a Pearl Earring is based on the novel...
Jan 28, 2015
Exhibition Review: The Lost Dhow & Permanent Collection at the Aga Khan Museum
Today, I visited the Aga Khan Museum (77 Wynford Drive, Toronto, Ontario), a large and impressive monolith of a building, clearly visible...
