March 5 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Love jewelry? Interested in growing a collection, or disposing of one, thatFebruary 27 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
What an artist dies in me! (Nero, quoted by Suetonius)
Ed 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
February 20 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed 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
We’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.
February 6 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Join 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
January 30 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Join Ed as he interviews reference librarian John T. Fierst of the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University, about its renowned collection of children’s books.
More at:mich.edu/library/clarke/
January 23 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed 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
Our 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/
December 19 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Help 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
We’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
December 12 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed provides cultural suggestions for the holidays. Tune in for an on-air review of museum exhibitions in the Ann Arbor-Detroit-Toledo region. All would be great venues for visiting family, friends, and young people.
December 5 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Ed welcomes acclaimed actor Sean Blake, who is starring in Performance Network Theatre’s current production, Why Not Me? A Sammy Davis Jr. Story. Mr. Blake’s one-man play, written by Tim Rhoze, spotlight’s this unique entertainer’s public and private life, his triumphs and his inner turmoil. Why Not Me? plays at PNT through December 19.
More at: facebook.com/pntheatre
December 5 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Join me as I describe my Thanksgiving trip to Ithaca, New York. Highlighted will be my visit
to the Kroch Library of Cornell University, where I examined a fabulous copy of
Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece, Frankenstein, along with a letter by Shelley to American
Revolutionary icon, the Marquis de Lafayette. I also attended the exhibition, Gods and
Scholars: Studying Religion at a Secular University.
more at: cornell.edu/exhibitions
November 28 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My family and I will be in Ithaca, New York for the holiday. I hope you will enjoy an encore broadcast of my interview with Dr. Jeanine Basinger, the founder of the Wesleyan University Cinema Archive, which aired initially August 22. As you know, Jeanine is a great friend of the show, appearing nearly every year to highlight a facet of Hollywood history. Today’s topic: the utopian/fantasy films of the 1930s such as Ronald Colman’s Lost Horizon.
Also, we’ll be celebrating the centenary of the birth of Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), whose private papers reside at the Archive.