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

Acclaimed 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.