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The Lonely Palette
Welcome to The Lonely Palette, the podcast that returns art history to the masses, one painting at a time. Each episode, host Tamar Avishai picks a painting du jour, interviews unsuspecting museum visitors in front of it, and then dives deeply into the object, the movement, the social context, and a...
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TLP Interview with The Cheeky Scholar
Earlier this year, I had a really, really great conversation with Dr. Lara Ayad, host of the podcast The Cheeky Scholar - and I'm proud to share it to...
Bonus - Why Public Radio Matters: A Conversation Between Rumble Strip's Erica Heilman and Jay Allison
It's September, and time to get back to work. That means defending public radio against federal defunding, exploring its core values, and taking an ho...
In Plain Sight - Ep. 3: "Go Deeper"
"You don't go look at a Rothko; you go inside a Rothko." - Claire, visitor, National Gallery of Art
Modern art. Two little words that strike so...
In Plain Sight - Ep. 2: "Listen Closer"
"Questions and the search for answers, and the appreciation of beauty, and then wanting to share it with other people, to go look at it closely togeth...
In Plain Sight - Ep. 1: "Look Longer"
"There are different levels of looking. And it's exciting to bring people to the different levels." - Estelle Quain, docent, National Gallery of Art<...
Ep. 70 - Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" (1943)
“I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” - Norman Rockwell
Whether arguing for soft versus hard tac...
TLP Interview with Judith Wechsler, Art Historian and Filmmaker
"Walter, let's go for a walk." - Judith Wechsler, in the arcades of Paris.
Professor Judith Wechsler is an art historian, filmmaker, writer, re...
Ep. 69 - Yee Sookyung's "Translated Vase" (2011)
“It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee Sookyung
Shattered porce...
TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer
"It's the close focus that draws me into a sound. And then it sort of spreads out and spreads through my body. And I let that happen, and I'm listenin...
Ep. 68 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (March 5th) #2" (1991)
"The only thing permanent is change." - Felix Gonzalez-Torres
There is no way around it. The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay, Cuban-America...
TLP Interview with Sebastian Smee, Art Critic, The Washington Post
“In the end, what interests me is the way art connects with life. Because otherwise, I don’t quite understand what it’s for.” - Sebastian Smee
S...
Ep. 67 - Cy Twombly's "Second Voyage to Italy (Second Version), 1962"
"My line does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." - Cy Twombly
Critics have described the work of consummate scribbler...
Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season
This season, we've got a stellar line-up: Cy Twombly, Lawren Harris, Käthe Kollwitz, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, to name just a few. We've got intervie...
Bonus - Introducing "The Rabbis Go South"
Tamar is alive! The Lonely Palette is alive! But in the year since we last spoke, she's been elbow-deep in audio projects galore - good for the pocket...
Ep. 66 - Bringing Monuments Home (from PRX's Monumental)
In this special episode of The Lonely Palette, I’m sharing the episode I made for the PRX limited-run podcast series "Monumental," which interrogates...
Bonus - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour
The Lonely Palette, as you've heard so often, is an enormously proud founding member of the Hub & Spoke Audio Collective, a group of fiercely independ...
TLP Interview with Lucy R. Lippard, Art Writer
Since her arrival on the art scene in the 1960s, legendary art writer Lucy Lippard’s work - searing, novelistic, crisp, and endlessly curious - as wel...
TLP Interview with Prudence Peiffer, Author & Content Director, MoMA
In the 1950s and 60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure street on the lower tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River—was home to some of the most iconic ar...
Bonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word
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Music used:
Glenn Miller, “Tuxedo Junction”
The Blue Dot Sessions, "No Smoking," "Mercurial Vision"
Bonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari on Sandro Botticelli
This is a free edition of The Lonely Palette Reads, a perk that will be going out exclusively to Patreon patrons in the future. To become a patron, go...
Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)
I can't help the way I'm feeling/Goddess of love, please take me to your leader/I can't help, I keep on dancing. - Lady Gaga
The neoplatonic ide...
Ep. 64 - Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground)" (1989)
See the images:
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Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Thread Indigo,” “Monder,...
Ep. 63 - James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl" (1861-62)
See the Images:
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Music Used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Ep. 62 - Helen Frankenthaler's "Madame Butterfly" (2000)
See the images:
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Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Sc...
Bonus - The Lonely Palette Live at On Air Fest (and an update!)
Happy 7th birthday, The Lonely Palette! We're ringing in our itch with an quick update on next season, which starts in June, and a recording of our li...
TLP Interview with Avery Trufelman, Design & Fashion Podcaster
Episode webpage:
bit.ly/3jtcOBl
Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Swapping Tubes”
The Kinks, “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”...
Ep. 61 - Under the Midnight Sun
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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lerennis,” “L...
Ep. 60 - Caravaggio's "The Crucifixion of St. Andrew" (1607)
See the images:
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Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
TLP Interview with Dar Williams, Singer-Songwriter
Dar Williams has been described by The New Yorker as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters,” but to thirteen-year-old Tamar she was, quite si...
TLP Interview with Adam Gopnik, Critic, The New Yorker
Episode webpage:
bit.ly/3COhnOp
Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Balti”
Mandy Patinkin, “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in...
TLP Interview with Dr. Charlotte Mullins, Art Critic & Broadcaster
Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Spark"
Rod Stewart, "Every Picture Tells A Story"
Charlotte's book:
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Ep. 59 - Sarah Sze's "Fallen Sky" (2021)
What goes up into the sky must come down into the earth, and fortunately for us we’ve got Sarah Sze, mistress of materials, memory, and meaning, helmi...
Ep. 58 - Odili Donald Odita's "Cut" (2016)
Betcha never realized how deeply color colored your world - and the world - until you found yourself dancing down the diagonal of this showstopping pr...
Ep. 57 - Juno, A Colossal Roman Statue (late 1st c. BCE)
This episode was produced in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Music used:
The...
Ep. 56 - Memorials (Collaboration with Hi-Phi Nation)
Music Used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Drone Pine,” “Taoudella,” “The Consulate,” “Our Fingers Cold,” “Slider”
Silver Maple, “After the Rain”...
Ep. 55 - Harriet Powers' "Pictorial Quilt" (1895-98)
This episode was produced in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition, “Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories” is on view...
Ep. 54 - Grant Wood's "American Gothic" (1930)
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Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
TLP Interview with Dr. Rachel Saunders, Curator, Harvard Art Museums
See the images discussed:
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Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “One Little Triumph,” “Sage the Hunter”
Tamar’s ex...
Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 3: The Urban Sublime
Artists Explored:
Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, Charles Sheeler, Martin Wong
See the Images:
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Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic
See the images:
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Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Noe Noe,” “A Certain Lightnes...