Arts

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Professor Modris Eksteins’ newest book, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, tells the story of Otto Wacker, a dancer, painter, art dealer and eventual Nazi party member who was convicted in 1932 of selling fake Van Gogh paintings. In the process of telling that story, Eksteins examines the career of Van Gogh, the birth of modernism, the breakdown of 19th Century authority, the issues of art, authenticity, and experience, as well as Hitler's rise to power.

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In 1987, the first intifada exploded in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Canadian premiers and Prime Minister Mulroney were immersed in the Meech Lake Accord talks, and Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez landed the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Writer Lawrence Hill has always felt attachment to people, not places. Nevertheless, the place he grew up – the Toronto suburb of Don Mills in the early 1960s – shaped him as a person and as a writer.

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In observance of Black History Month, guest curators Sally Frater and Pamela Edmonds have produced, 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, an art exhibition at Hart House’s Justina M. Barnicke Gallery that asks us to consider what it is to have a month dedicated to black history and what this means to a new generation of artists.