John Carey, will speak about his controversial book "What Good Are the Arts" published in the UK in 2005. Carey has an impressive CV; he is an emeritus professor of English at Oxford University, chief book reviewer for the London "Sunday Times" since 1976 and the author of several other books.

Peter Mollenkof was born in Philadelphia but has spent much of his career in Tokoyo, Japan as an art historian and art critic. The subjects of his drawings take inspiration from flora and fauna, outer space, microscopic organisms and the human body. There is a tension between naturalism and the unnatural in his subjects that seem to hover in ambiguous spaces.