Alison de Lima Greene

September 26 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

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Ed will welcome Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Ms. de Lima Greene will describe the stunning exhibition, Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, on view at MFAH through January 24.  Comprising more than 60 paintings spanning the artists’ whole career, the exhibition provides an intimate view into the development of his signature style and of Abstract Expressionism.

More at: mfah.org

 

September 26 • 3:30-4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Screen shot 2015-09-24 at 2.15.36 AMEd will conclude his survey of American Regionalist painters Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton.

 

 

Ms. Paula Maynard

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

Screen shot 2015-09-25 at 6.23.04 PMMs. Paula Maynard, Director of Volunteers, Group Tours and Press at Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home, in Manchester, Vermont, will describe the history and collections of the estate created by Robert Todd Lincoln in 1905. Of special note will be the Georgian Revival manor house and Mr. Lincoln’s private Pullman railcar.

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More at: hildene.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 26 • 3:30-4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Ed will highlight the murals, paintings, and prints of the American Regionalist artists,
c. 1930-1942.

Dan Martin

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

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photographer specializing in capturing Detroit’s classic architecture.  Dan will describe his favorite buildings and public spaces in The Motor City.
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Tracee Glab

August 29 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

sickchild Ed welcomes back Tracee Glab, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, the Flint Institute of Arts.  Tracee will describe her moving and eerie exhibition, “Edvard Munch,” which is on view through September 6.  Munch’s tragic early life certainly set the stage for his relentlessly personal artistic style.  What is less well-known, perhaps, is his constant searching for new ways to express that vision.  In 1894 Munch dove into printmaking in all its variety — etching, drypoint, engraving, lithography, even woodblock.  The result in this stunning exhibition of 20 prints is a beguiling beauty made more poignant by its fragility, and by Death’s ever-present specter.

More at: Flint Institute of Arts

August 29 • 3:30-4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

munchvampireA review by Ed of several paintings and prints by Edvard Munch.  Themes such as sickness, medicine, rural-urban dislocation, and the Romantic tradition will be explored.  Ed will also describe his recent trip to Michigan’s “Great North,” and the thoughts it inspired.

 

 

Dr. Jeanine Basinger

August 22 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

losthorizonbasingerEd is delighted to welcome back Dr. Jeanine Basinger, Founder and Curator of The Wesleyan Cinema Archives, and Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Wesleyan University, in Middletown,

Connecticut.  Author of many acclaimed books spotlighting Hollywood’s Golden Age as well as the influence of women in film, the war genre, and the role of marriage in movies, Jeanine returns to discuss the utopian/fantasy films of the 1930s.

More at: http://wesleyan.edu/cinema/

 

John Maxtone-Graham

August 8 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

ussunitedstatesmaxtonegrahamJoin Ed for an encore broadcast of his third interview with renowned maritime historian, John Maxtone-Graham, who died July 6.  Originally airing last March 7, Mr. Maxtone-Graham regales us with witty and nostalgic tales of the great age of ocean liners, particularly of Lusitania, and the subject of his final book, the S.S. United States.  A tribute to a true poet of the sea, listeners will be inspired by his knowledge, conviviality, and unsurpassed ability to tell a story.

Barry Yourgrau

August 8 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

yourgrauAcclaimed writer and performer, Barry Yourgrau, engagingly chronicles his odyssey to ‘sane-itize’ his life in his new book, Mess: One Man’s Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act.  Getting out-from-under a host of art and paper clutter accumulated over decades was no easy task.  Barry describes how, through much introspection, discipline, and love, he managed to succeed.

More at: http://barryyourgrau.com/

 

August 8 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Ed concludes his review of late Victorian aesthetic painter, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, with descriptions of his greatest paintings and the artist’s ‘rediscovery’ in the 1960s.

Peter Ostrum and Paris Themmen

July 18 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

wonka2Join Ed as he welcomes back actors Peter Ostrum and Paris Themmen from the perennially-popular 1971 classic, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  Peter, who starred with Gene Wilder and played Charlie Bucket, and Paris (Mike Teevee), will return to Detroit’s historic Redford Theatre this weekend for screenings of the film, autograph signings, and commentary about their experiences in the film.

More at: redfordtheater.com

 

 

Dr. John Guy & Michael Tayter

July 11 • 3:00 – 3:30p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Screen Shot 2015-07-08 at 6.50.14 PMOur guest will be Dr. John Guy, curator with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, who will give us an on-air tour of the exhibition, The Royal Hunt: Courtly Pursuits in Indian Art, opening on June 20 in New York City.

More at: metmuseum.org

 

 

 

July 11 • 3:30 – 4:00p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

elevationburger-logoEd welcomes Mr. Michael Tayter, owner of the Elevation Burger restaurants in Ann Arbor.  A new sponsor, Mike will describe the development of Elevation Burger, and just why it is so successful as ‘fast-food’s alternative.’

 

 

Ed will then end the broadcast with some observations on art and cultural events in our area: (Rolling Sculpture and the Art Fair).

 

Dr. Susan Grace Galassi

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

Ed welcomes back Dr. Susan Grace Galassi, Senior Curator at The Frick Collection in New York City.  Dr. Galassi will describe the stunningly bbeautiful Flaming June, painted by Sir Frederic (later, Lord) Leighton in 1895.  Combining Pre-Raphaelite classicism with a modern turn-of-the-century aesthetic, Flaming June is regarded as Leighton’s masterpiece, and is on exhibition until September 6.

More at: frick.org

 

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

Join Ed as he spotlights The Fourth of July in Art, with images celebrating two centuries of American freedom.  Earlier in the day Ed will  appear in the Ann Arbor Fourth of July Parade, again riding with Bob Elton in one of Bob’s fabulous classic cars.