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Diane Rehm & JMW Turner

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March 19 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

diane_rehm-on_my_ownEnjoy an encore broadcast of Ed’s interview with legendary NPR host, Diane Rehm. Miss Rehm recounts her life in radio and marriage, and discusses her latest book, the very moving On My Own.

 

 

March 19 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Screen Shot 2016-03-25 at 9.23.12 PM“Turner at Petworth.” Ed describes oil paintings and watercolors by the great English Romantic artist, Joseph Mallord William Turner, during his sojourns to the country seat of his friend, the Earl of Egremont, from 1826-1837.

 

Van Dyck & George Martin

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March 12 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

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Experience the fabulous new exhibition, Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, at The Frick Collection, in New York, with our on-air curators Stijn Alsteens and Adam Eaker. Anthony Van Dyck’s (1599-1641) shimmering portraits of courtiers and leading ecclesiastics during the reign of Charles I influenced artists for the next two centuries.

More at: frick.org

March 12 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

georgtopEd welcomes back WAAM show host and photographer, Dan Martin (London Calling), for a tribute to legendary music producer Sir George Martin. Dan will describe Sir George’s crucial contributions to the Beatles’ sound, as well as to a host of other musicians and performers of the post-war “British Invasion”.

 

More at: “London Calling,” Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. on WAAM Talk 1600 and waamradio.com

Leora Tapper & Susan Barnett

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March 5 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

broochLove jewelry? Interested in growing a collection, or disposing of one, that
will stand as a legacy to your family? Our guests, Leora Tapper, Estate Buyer, and Susan Barnett, Certified Gemologist Appraiser, with Tapper’s Diamonds & Fine Jewelry, in West Bloomfield, will highlight the importance of appraising and
caring for a gem or jewelry collection.
More at: tappers.com

Nero

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February 27 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

What an artist dies in me! (Nero, quoted by Suetonius)

Nero_1Ed expands on last week’s interview with Kelsey Museum curator, Elaine Gazda, by highlighting the reign of the emperor Nero (54-68 C.E.). Achievements in art and architecture will be described as well as the Emperor’s own claims to poetic and musical prowess. The disasters of the
reign – military, economic, and natural – will also be reviewed in light of Nero’s profligacy and brutality, such as his persecution of Christians after the Great Fire of Rome.
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Dr. Katharine Baetier

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February 20 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

VigeeLeBrun_Poster_Image_481x800Ed welcomes Dr. Katharine Baetier, curator of the exquisite exhibition, Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and running through May 15.  Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842), one of the greatest portrait painters during the late 18th-early 19th centuries, served as court painter to Queen Marie Antoinette until the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.  The 80 paintings and pastels provide a startlingly beautiful record of the royal family and their circle on the eve of catastrophe.

More at: metmuseum.org

February 20 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

220px-LiaisonsDangereuses_XWe’ll continue our on-air journey in pre-Revolutionary France with a survey of portraits and historical paintings, architecture, and of influential novels and pamphlets that highlight the period.

 

Diane Rehm & Dr. Elaine Gazda

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February 13 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Diane RehmWe will be joined by the renowned, award-winning broadcaster, Diane Rehm.  Miss Rehm, host of the immensely popular NPR radio program, The Diane Rehm Show, will share with us her journey of awareness following her husband’s death from Parkinson’s Disease, which she movingly chronicles in her new book, On My Own, published by Knopf.

More at: aaknopf.com

 

February 13 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Elaine GazdaScreen Shot 2016-02-11 at 3.20.29 PMJoin Ed for an on-air preview of the stunning upcoming exhibition, Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii, opening February 19 at the
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.  Our returning guest will be
Dr. Elaine Gazda, Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Collections.

more at: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/exhibitions/

Heather Lemonedes

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February 6 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

titianJoin the celebration of The Cleveland Museum of Art’s centenary with Heather Lemonedes, Curator of Drawings & Interim Co-Chief Curator. Heather will describe Titian’s great painting, Portrait of Alfonso d’Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page, from 1533, on loan from The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The late Renaissance will come alive with this multifaceted image of a prominent soldier-statesman-collector.More at:clevelandart.org

Tracee Glab & U of M Hatcher Library

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January 23 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Screen shot 2016-01-21 at 1.20.48 PMEd welcomes back Tracee Glab, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, the Flint Institute of Arts.  Tracee will describe the new exhibition, Decorative to Dangerous: The Art of Metalwork, which encompasses the development of sculpture and weaponry over the last 3,000 years.

More at: flintarts.org/exhibitions

January 23 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Screen shot 2016-01-21 at 1.24.06 PMOur guests will be UM Hatcher Graduate Library curators Dr. Pablo Alvarez and Juli McLoone, who will spotlight their exhibition, Shakespeare on Page and Stage: A Celebration, which commemorates the 400th year since the death of The Bard through Folio engravings, photographs, and publications of his works from 1632-1900s.

more at: lib.umich.edu/events/

Louis Bayard

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December 19 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

achristmascarolHelp celebrate the holiday season with Ed as he welcomes back acclaimed author Louis Bayard, who joined us last year to describe his moving historical novel, Roosevelt’s Beast. Louis is also an authority on Charles Dickens, having published
articles on Dickens’ Christmas Books, most notably, A Christmas Carol. Join us as Louis highlights the literary Carol along with its film adaptations.

More at: louisbayard.com

December 19 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

wardropperWe’ll celebrate the 80th Anniversary of The Frick Collection with its director, Dr. Ian Wardropper. As you know, guests from The Frick have enhanced this show numerous times over the past decade. Dr. Wardropper will spotlight the Museum’s founding by Henry Clay Frick and his daughter, Helen, and describe its ongoing growth, including current exhibitions and education programs. If you and your family will be in New York over the holidays, I urge you to visit this gem on Fifth Avenue.

more at: frick.org