Art
Art
Dec 02 2016
Top Price Paid for Mountaintop
Mountain Forms by Lawren Harris was sold at auction in Toronto on November 23. It was a big painting by a big Canadian artist. It sold for a very big price.
The auction was over in just three minutes. The auctioneer looked around for any final bids. “Selling. Selling...
Art
May 06 2016
The Play's the Thing
Knock knock. Who’s there?
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare who?
For goodness’ sake. Surely you’ve heard of William Shakespeare. The famous British playwright and poet died 400 years ago. But people still read, perform and study his work today.
So who is this great…
Art
May 15 2014
Farley Mowat Puts Down His Pen
On May 6, author Farley Mowat passed away. Canada lost a master storyteller that day. And Mother Nature lost a devoted friend. Farley Mowat devoted his life to writing about nature. He said it was “the only subject I really wanted to write…
Art
Apr 18 2014
Piano Man
Daniel Clarke Bouchard is a typical 14-year-old. The Montreal teen plays hockey, takes piano lessons, goes to school. But how many 14-year-olds play Carnegie Hall in New York? How many appear on the Ellen DeGeneres Show? He may be young, but Daniel already plays piano...
Art
Mar 07 2014
Dreaming Up a Doodle
Imagine you could invent anything. What would it be? That’s the question Google asked Canadian students in the first Doodle 4 Google contest last October. Students from kindergarten to grade 12 put on their thinking caps. Then they grabbed their art supplies and got...
Art
Oct 24 2013
Canada’s Storyteller Wins Nobel Prize
On October 10, Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s not the first award the 82-year-old Canadian has earned. But it’s the most prestigious. It’s also the world’s biggest prize for writers—a cool $1.3 million. The Nobel is awarded in literature…