

While Audain admits initially he was a bit reticent about revealing intimacy issues, he realized it’s all part of his origin story - a story he said he never really sat well with until he decided to write the book. “I wondered if I was perhaps more suited to the priesthood than to secular life.” “I would date occasionally but always stopped short of climbing into bed,” Audain writes in the book. Audain also openly discusses the sexual dysfunction he experienced when he was a much younger man. His parents split when he was very young and his father had a drinking problem that sometimes led to violence. The soft-spoken business giant who has helped save grizzly bears hated British boarding school. Michael Audain founded the Grizzly Bear Foundation to help preserve the animals that are such a big part of B.C.

However, Audain doesn’t just put himself in places and points in history, he at times puts himself under an emotional microscope. Civil Liberties Union and a lefty activist.

However, it’s unlikely that people who stand and admire Hart’s large and stunning The Dance Screen (The Scream Too) as they enter the Whistler gallery have any idea that the guy who put it there was also a Freedom Rider who was jailed in Mississippi a prison guard at Oakalla Godson of early 20th century star of the stage Tallulah Bankhead offspring of the well-known an influential Dunsmuir family - yes, as in the street in Vancouver farm appraiser delegate to the founding convention of the NDP founding member of the B.C. It’s these newsworthy philanthropic moves and perhaps a successful career as chairman of Polygon Homes, a company that for over 40 years has constructed 30,000 homes from Abbotsford to Squamish, that gives the 84-year-old a certain amount of name recognition. The donation from the Audain family’s charitable foundation will help fund the new VAG building. 4, while his wife, Yoshiko Karasawa, and VAG CEO Anthony Kiendl look on. Gordon Smith said that, I think.” Developer, art collector and philanthropist Michael Audain signs off on a donation of $100 million at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Nov. I feel the Vancouver Art Gallery is where I learned so much about art because I am absolutely convinced the way to learn about art is by looking, looking, looking and looking. “I’ve had a long relationship with the Vancouver Art Gallery,” said Audain during a recent phone conversation. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
