The Rabble Rouser

There카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a fleeting scene in a 2020 Nowness documentary about Bruce Bailey where he echoes the pose from Jacques-Louis David카지노 게임 컬렉션�s iconic painting The Death of Marat 카지노 게임 컬렉션� in a bathtub, head slumped, his right arm hung loosely over the rim.

The documentary, , is a testament to the rise of Mr. Bailey (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�76) since his time at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s. He카지노 게임 컬렉션�s not a household name in Canada, nor does he wish to be, though he카지노 게임 컬렉션�s internationally regarded as an investment banker, art collector, patron, and philanthropist who has donated and raised millions of dollars. He is one of the most influential people in the Canadian art scene today 카지노 게임 컬렉션� or, as he says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�a connector, a collector, a curator.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

is so grateful for his support that it recently named an interior gathering room the 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Espace Bruce Bailey.카지노 게임 컬렉션� In 2020, the MMFA held an exhibition of art from his personal collection, built on works that deal with 카지노 게임 컬렉션�good, evil, beauty, sadness, neglect, and ugliness in humanity,카지노 게임 컬렉션� the museum said. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The dichotomies of life/death, black/white, good/bad, and love/hate reflect all facets of the human condition.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

The themes allude to his mortal pose in the tub, for its message, not explained in the documentary, is a profound insight into the man who has packed a lot into one biography.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I see life as a very transitory thing,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Bailey says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve had a lot of death in my family.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

He speaks of his sister, Linda, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�my closest friend,카지노 게임 컬렉션� who died of cancer at 43, her husband, John Gilchrist, who died in a car crash, and a brother, John, who died in an accident. Their mother, Jessie, committed suicide in 1973. His father, William, died in 2004.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m the last person in that primary family unit. Fortunately, I have a son and a niece, and I just decided to really try and live life every day. So, I think that message was meant to be kind of that we카지노 게임 컬렉션�re having a great time, but death and disaster are never too far away in my psyche.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Struggle has crossed generations in his Presbyterian family. Though he 카지노 게임 컬렉션�wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t change a thing카지노 게임 컬렉션� about his childhood, there was an alcoholic parent, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�which is not a great thing to have happen to you.카지노 게임 컬렉션� He speaks admiringly of his widowed grandmother, Helen Forbes Bailey, and how she raised three children during the Depression, yet managed to run a soup kitchen and feed 카지노 게임 컬렉션�long lineups of jobless men.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

As an adult, he카지노 게임 컬렉션�s had trials that could destroy a person: in the mid-1980s he came out, losing both his marriage and his job at a Toronto investment firm. With support from a friend, he launched his own firm, headquartered in Toronto with branches in Palo Alto, Calif., and Geneva, Switzerland, and prospered. He later married Spanish philosopher Alfredo Ferran Calle.

Mr. Bailey has become an influential figure who is so memorably sociable and simultaneously elusive to media exposure that he카지노 게임 컬렉션�s been called 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Gatsby,카지노 게임 컬렉션� after F. Scott Fitzgerald카지노 게임 컬렉션�s enigmatic, doomed character.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m not Gatsby,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says, laughing. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Gatsby didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t have any friends. I have a lot of very loyal friends of all ages, and my life is not going to end the Jay Gatsby way. I think superficial people use the Gatsby thing because I throw a good party, and the reason I throw a good party is that during my childhood and adolescence I never had a party. I never had a birthday party, I never had a Christmas party, we never had any presents, we didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t have any celebrations.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

He did have a rare family trip to Paris, where he had a fortuitous encounter with the power of art while looking, perhaps coincidentally, at another French masterpiece of watery death.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�That child who was transformed was me looking at [Théodore] Géricault카지노 게임 컬렉션�s . That was my revelation of, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Oh my God, this is so incredible.카지노 게임 컬렉션� I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t want to leave, and it was closing time, and I was kind of transfixed. That was the watershed moment when I realized I did want to have art in my life, and that it was something that really excited me.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Decades later, his faith in art seems unshakable. To a statement about rationalizing whether to spend money on a piece of art that one doesn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t need, per se, he responds, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�You probably need it more than anything else.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

That brief answer is another insight into his culture, philosophy, and even his political perspective, all of which seem to revolve around art.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�The thing that most Canadians are missing in their lives is art, music, and culture, because our education system in a resource-based economy is completely inadequate,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Mr. Bailey, who also studied international human rights law at Columbia 카지노게임사이트 in New York, where he obtained his LLM, after he카지노 게임 컬렉션�d earned his LLB at Dalhousie 카지노게임사이트 in Halifax. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Canada devalues culture, and it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s been detrimental to everybody, to people카지노 게임 컬렉션�s health, education, and enjoyment of life. You have to fill in the gaps yourself and do continuing education with opera, symphony, and art.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Art, he says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�opens up new channels of communication in the brain, gets you thinking in new dimensions, helps you compete more effectively as a businessperson, or just in the quality of your own life, to, as Glenn Gould said, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�create a psyche that can enjoy all the things life has to offer.카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Nathalie Bondil, the former director of the MMFA and now the museum and exhibitions director at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, has written that Mr. Bailey 카지노 게임 컬렉션�has such a strong vision with a high ambition for culture. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s really a question of sharing a heritage and also enhancing togetherness throughout the country. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s not a question of collecting contemporary art but truly what could you do with art? What could you give to make our society even better?카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Mr. Bailey gives his own money so young people have avenues to art they might otherwise not have. He supports programs to give students free admission to museums, for example, or supports young people at The Royal Conservatory of Music.

Young people also attended a post-pandemic fundraiser for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Canadian Opera Company at his farm north of Toronto where, in typical Bruce Bailey fashion, he required his 카지노 게임 컬렉션�rich friends카지노 게임 컬렉션� to buy tickets for $1,000 or, even better, a table for 10 for $15,000, then sat them at tables with musicians, other performers, local farmers, and young people who were sponsored to attend the event for free.

He is 카지노 게임 컬렉션�trying to broaden or open up the tent,카지노 게임 컬렉션� primarily to help democratize art and share its power.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I think it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s necessary in democracy to not only support everybody, but to give everybody opportunities,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says, adding that the seating arrangements also 카지노 게임 컬렉션�made for a much more interesting party, because the paradigm for these parties in Toronto is a bunch of bankers in a chandeliered hotel room, and they카지노 게임 컬렉션�re all tired of seeing each other because 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the same people get invited to the same arts benefits.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Another event held at his farm in 2022 카지노 게임 컬렉션� calling it a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�pastoral art salon카지노 게임 컬렉션� hints at his fondness for earlier times 카지노 게임 컬렉션� netted more than $1 million for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. A friend, Scottish artist Peter Doig, also donated a painting valued at $4.1 million to the museum.

Quebec, Mr. Bailey says, takes its culture more seriously than does the rest of Canada, and after he spent time in Montreal years ago, he vowed to support the Montreal museum if he ever had the means to do so. The first outdoor salon at his farm to benefit the museum raised $433,000.

His conversation is inexhaustible 카지노 게임 컬렉션� unless he has a plane to catch, as he does on this day 카지노 게임 컬렉션� and it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s festooned with sentiments of struggle by famous people, from soprano Maria Callas (카지노 게임 컬렉션�adversity is good카지노 게임 컬렉션�), to the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius (카지노 게임 컬렉션�love everything that happens to you, even the bad things, as you learn from them and they make you stronger카지노 게임 컬렉션�).

What wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t a struggle was adapting to life in Kingston and on Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s campus. He still has friends he met in Kingston 50 years ago 카지노 게임 컬렉션� he mentions the family of Amanda and Dr. John Milliken, the latter a professor in Health Sciences, and the family of Professor Christopher Crowder, a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�father figure to me카지노 게임 컬렉션� 카지노 게임 컬렉션� who welcomed Mr. Bailey into their home.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I had a happy experience in Kingston. I think it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s because of the small size of the university, that kind of family feeling. It was perfect as a launching pad for me to transition from there to a bigger city life.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

He also cites art and architecture Professor Pierre Du Prey, a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�kind of eccentric art historian who had quite an influence on me in terms of looking at art in architecture.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

As a student, Mr. Bailey was 카지노 게임 컬렉션�an exceedingly bright young man,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Professor du Prey says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�In those early days, I was a bit of a hard-nosed kid professor, and I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t give out good marks frequently, but Bruce sure got them. He had a very perceptive eye and mind, and a good vocabulary. He could easily have been a professor in art and architectural history.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

In classes, Mr. Bailey 카지노 게임 컬렉션�didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t hesitate to speak up,카지노 게임 컬렉션� the now-retired professor recalls. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�He made up for the silence of those that didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t contribute.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

The outspokenness of a precocious student has matured into a determination to speak even more loudly on behalf of those who do not, or cannot.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I have the freedom to be nonconformist,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Bailey says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The upside to that is that you can actually talk about real issues. The downside is maybe I카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve been a little too pedantic. Some people see someone who has that kind of freedom as a threat to the established order. I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m trying to break that mould, to bring people together, but certainly, I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m probably not everybody카지노 게임 컬렉션�s cup of tea. I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m seen as a bit of a rabble rouser, frankly 카지노 게임 컬렉션� people either love me or hate me.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

However he카지노 게임 컬렉션�s seen, he seems not the least bit bothered by antipathy from some corners. As for the Gatsby thing, it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s hardly worth a sigh.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m a pretty private person,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says, citing a quote attributed to the great proponent of individualism, Ralph Waldo Emerson: 카지노 게임 컬렉션�The fate of the well-known is to be misunderstood.카지노 게임 컬렉션�