Culture & Society - University of Toronto Magazine

Something Rotten In the State of the Arts?

Purists claim the arts should not be sullied by business. Pragmatists devalue the BA for failing to impart job skills. A pox on them, for they are all wrong. A defence of the liberal arts degree Read More

Illustration of a medieval monk talking in old english to a man with a spear and helmet

Lodes of Culture

U of T researchers are unearthing the A-Æ-B-Cs of cultural history from medieval times to the present Read More

Ethnic Isolation

Ethnic communities risk being at a disadvantage Read More

Of Murder and Magic

The inspiration for the fanciful novels of Guy Gavriel Kay and Caroline Roe sprang from the U of T campus Read More

Black and white photo of a giant-sized man standing on a grassy landscape beside a miniature-sized woman looking up at him

A Huge Presence

Through the lens of Lee Miller Read More

Algoma Hills, 1921 J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932). Oil on panel, 21.6 x 26.7 cm University College Art Collection, purchased 1942 / Photo: Michael Visser

The True North?

J.E.H. MacDonald's view of the Algoma region Read More

Portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk, 1858 by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 67.3 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1911 / Photo: National Gallery of Canada

Zeal

William Holman Hunt's portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk Read More

Boxwood, height: 31 cm., Lillian Malcove Collection / Photo: Michael Visser. Elaborately carved cross on a base, with case, Italo-Byzantine, late 15th or early 16th century

Cross-Reference

Italo-Byzantine crosses part of the Lillian Malcove Collection Read More

Discovering Canada’s Past

Excavating sites of ancient settlements Read More

The Thousand-Year Itch

How do you get 10 scholars to wax anything but bored about the millennium? Scratch the surface of the Y2K hype and ask them to predict the future of their fields Read More

Led by Professor Donald Chant, left, environmental activists recognized Survival Day in 1970.

Green Power

A 1969 article in The Varsity ignited students to start the Canadian environmental movement Read More

Stay the Course

Researchers test perceptions of highway traffic speed Read More