The Lonely Palette
The Lonely Palette is a podcast that makes art history accessible to everyone. Each episode, host Tamar Avishai selects a single painting, interviews museum visitors about their impressions, and then explores the artwork's historical and social context. The show aims to demystify art and make it relatable to a broad audience.
Episodes
TLP Interview with Helena De Groot, Audio Producer and Sound Artist
"The deeper you go, the less indulgent it will be.” - Helena's stickie note
Helena De Groot is an audio maker, but, really, she’s an audio artist. Her series, Creation Myth, just dropped in full as part of the CBC’s show, Personally. Personally is about the most personal experiences that audio makers that probe within themselves, laying themselves bare, for our benefit, as the best memoirs do.
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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 today. We cast our net really wide, talking at first about the role of artists in society, my favorite museums, but then we got into it. We got into it. Because Lara and I are both, in the parlance of the moment, free speech bros. And if you’re going t
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 honest look at how we got here. I'm proud to share this conversation between my Hub & Spoke colleague Erica Heilman, host of the exquisite and unflinching Rumble Strip, and her buddy Jay Allison, founder of Transom, producer of The Moth Radio Hour, and
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 ArtModern art. Two little words that strike so much fear in the heart of the average museum goer. When you're used to straightforward, legible paintings and sculptures, Modernism can be pretty destabilizing. Pretty weird. Canvases are now spattered with paint, or lined with grids, or barely containing t
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 together. Then you realize you've got something that can feed you for the rest of your life as a career." - Emily Pegues, curator, National Gallery of Art.Museum curators are an intimidating species. Those experts with their degrees. How could they possibl
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 ArtHow do YOU feel when you walk into an art museum? Is it familiar? Intimidating? Do you have a guard trying to shush you, or an overly-enthusiastic friend trying to tell you what to like? Are you joyful? Are you sad? Are you… bored?You’re not alone. Wh
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 RockwellWhether arguing for soft versus hard taco shells or the Neo-Nazi right to march in Skokie, freedom of speech is a fundamental right we all enjoy as Americans. But it turns out that telling people that is pretty complicated, actually. Thank goodness we have Norman Rockwell, virtuosic photorealisti
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, researcher, Francophile, and leading expert on Paul Cezanne and Honoré Daumier. She’s the daughter of a major religious philosopher. Her resume reads like a who’s who of 20th century art historians – Meyer Shapiro, Linda Nochlin, Leo Steinberg, Gershom Sholem
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 SookyungShattered porcelain is impossible to repair. As impossible as fully, and accurately, reconstructing the past. But who needs that pressure? What if, instead of tossing those shards in the dustbin of history, we acknowledged that the thing will never be what it once was? Ma
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 listening in a different way." - Annea LockwoodThe artist and composer Annea Lockwood is not just any musician. She is an artist of sound. She is a composer of art. Her music is performance art, and her art is always, always audio-rich and musical. She sends
Ep. 68 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (March 5th) #2" (1991)
"The only thing permanent is change." - Felix Gonzalez-TorresThere is no way around it. The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay, Cuban-American artist who responded to - and died during - the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, is sad. His work is a memorial, both to a lost generation and to his own partner, Ross. Yet it is through these seemingly banal, industrial, or every day materials, and the
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 SmeeSebastian Smee has been the art critic for the Washington Post since 2018, but has written extensively about art for every publication you can think of, from here to his native Australia, and winning a Pulitzer prize for criticism along the way. Both his pro
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 TwomblyCritics have described the work of consummate scribbler Cy Twombly as at once "barely there" and overly academic, but what about us art civilians? What is it about these half-baked scraps, scratch, and scrawl that speaks to our own creative impulses, our own inner children dying to grab the crayon and crush the
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 interviews with the Washington Post's Sebastian Smee, the artist and composer Annea Lockwood, and more. We've got a whole National Gallery residency! So listen and subscribe, rate and review, and fire up your earbuds for another season of looking with your e
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 pocketbook, but bad for independent art history podcast productivity. But your patience will be rewarded! And in the meantime, a few announcements:- Join me and my fellow H&S colleagues at the PRX Podcast Garage in Allson, MA on Wednesday, November 6 for a
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 the state of monuments across the greater U.S. and what their future says about where we are now and where we’re going.This was the concluding episode, exploring how some monuments are larger than life, dwarfing us, making us feel small relative to t
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 independent, story-driven, mind-expanding podcasts. Since 2017, we've supported each other while forging our own paths, prioritizing craft and humane storytelling above all else.Now, if you haven't noticed, media in general, and podcasting in particular, is
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 well as her insights, activism, entrenchment in the art world, and friendships have secured her role as one of the most important minds in art criticism of her generation.Now, at 86 years old, all of the stuff that she’s collected along the way – photog
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 artists in history, and who would define American Art during their time there: Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, these artis
Bonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word
www.patreon.com/lonelypaletteMusic used:Glenn Miller, “Tuxedo Junction”The Blue Dot Sessions, "No Smoking," "Mercurial Vision"Our website:www.thelonelypalette.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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 to patreon.com/lonelypalette and sign up at any level of support. Thank you!Got suggestions for other intimidating-until-read-aloud-texts for future episodes of The Lonely Palette Reads? Email the show at tamar@thelonelypalette.com.Music used:Glenn
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 GagaThe neoplatonic ideal of beauty, the girl on the half-shell, the naked chick riding a clam. Her tilted head and fluttery hair are recognized by everyone and their grandma, but no one - experts included - can explain just why in the heck this painting is so iconic. Shell we ta
Ep. 64 - Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground)" (1989)
See the images:bit.ly/45wNrSbMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Blue Dot Sessions, “Thread Indigo,” “Monder,” “Tall Journey,” “Stephi,” “Morning Glare”Helen Reddy, “I Am Woman” (performed at the Mobilize for Women's Lives Rally in Washington in 1989)Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypaletteEpisode sponsors:Jay Handy Financial Services (for artists!)www.signalpointinvest.com/team
Ep. 63 - James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl" (1861-62)
See the Images:bit.ly/3PMpK3oMusic Used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Slate Tracker,” “Laser Focus,” “The Griffiths,” “Crumbtown,” “Discovery Harbor,” “Leave the TV On,” “Pickers,” “Caraval, “Lady Marie”Support Hub & Spoke's Independence Fundraiser:www.hubspokeaudio.org/july4 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.
Ep. 62 - Helen Frankenthaler's "Madame Butterfly" (2000)
See the images:bit.ly/3ChhuAE Music used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Bedroll,” “A Common Pause,” “Palms Down,” “Desmontes,” “Delamine,” “Greylock,” “Angel Tooth,” “Dear Myrtle”Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees" Episode sponsor:The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments: bit.ly/43Qp1SJ Support the show!www.patreon.co
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 live show at On Air Fest, which was held in Brooklyn this past February.Please enjoy this revamped and refreshed episode of Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document," smash that subscribe button, and we'll see you next month.See the episode images:bit.ly/411
TLP Interview with Avery Trufelman, Design & Fashion Podcaster
Episode webpage:bit.ly/3jtcOBlMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Swapping Tubes”The Kinks, “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”Support our year-end fundraiser!bit.ly/3An5jSd Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep. 61 - Under the Midnight Sun
See the images:bit.ly/3FX0S3HMusic used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lerennis,” “Lissa,” “Ice Tumbler,” “Mr. Graves,” “Throughput,” “A Rush of Clear Water,” “Pinky,” “The Green Room”Vivaldi, “Summer”Support our year-end fundraiser!bit.ly/3An5jSd Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of pers
Ep. 60 - Caravaggio's "The Crucifixion of St. Andrew" (1607)
See the images:bit.ly/3iNqpTYMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"Charles Daab, “Irish and Scotch melodies (take 2)”The Blue Dot Sessions, “Highway 430,” “Angel Tooth,” “Di Breun,” “Rainy Day Drone,” “No Smoking,” “Cornicob,” “Tarte Tatin,” “Vernouillet,” “Thread of Clouds,” “Set the Tip Jar,” “Homin Brer”Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"Support
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 simply, a personal hero: a songwriter whose poetry, poignancy, and humor could capture at once the authentic voices of an inner child, a searching young adult, and a wizened sage. We met in person in 2013 at Dar’s songwriting retreat, and our friendshi
TLP Interview with Adam Gopnik, Critic, The New Yorker
Episode webpage:bit.ly/3COhnOpMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Balti”Mandy Patinkin, “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in the Park with GeorgeSupport the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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:amzn.to/3TksKDlEpisodes referenced:Anselm Kiefer: bit.ly/31gUSwWSarah Sze: bit.ly/3NRnGmrSupport the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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, helming the journey.This episode was produced with support from Storm King Art Center.See the images:bit.ly/3NRnGmrMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Plate Glass,” “Leatherboun
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 print.This episode was produced in partnership with the Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition "Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities" is on view until July 31, 2022.Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Ep. 57 - Juno, A Colossal Roman Statue (late 1st c. BCE)
This episode was produced in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.See the images:bit.ly/3tXx80oMusic used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Pigpaddle Creek,” “Temperance,” “Highway 94,” “Floating Whist,” “Danver County,” “Mr. Graves,” “Willow Belle”Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an
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”Megan Wofford, “Awake”Yi Nantiro, “Blue Lantern”Christian Nanzell, “Contraband”Gunnar Johnsen, “Documents 4”Fabien Tell, “Liaison”Arden Forest, “Monastral”Niclas Gustavsson, “My Kind of Illusion 1”Niclas Gustavsson, “Reflection 4”Episode webpage:bit.ly/3pkhoCISupp
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 until January 17, 2022.See the images:bit.ly/3jNT4FZMusic used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"Blue Dot Sessions, “Moon Bicycle Theme,” “Stucco Blue,” “Coronea,” “Lumber Down,” “Velvet Ladder,” “Gale”Get tickets to the exhibition:bit.ly
Ep. 54 - Grant Wood's "American Gothic" (1930)
See the images:bit.ly/2WuV2CQMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Long and Low Cloud,” “Hakodate Line,” “Cornicob,” “Sylvestor,” “Di Breun,” “The Silver Hatch,” “Speaker Joy”Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for info
TLP Interview with Dr. Rachel Saunders, Curator, Harvard Art Museums
See the images discussed:bit.ly/3kQbAiiMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “One Little Triumph,” “Sage the Hunter”Tamar’s exhibition review in the New York Review of Books:bit.ly/36X64CgThe Lonely Palette episode on Painting Edo:bit.ly/3iEFl2QThe HAM page on Painting Edobit.ly/3zrYBY7Support the show!www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for info
Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 3: The Urban Sublime
Artists Explored:Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, Charles Sheeler, Martin WongSee the Images:bit.ly/34AE9XwMusic Used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Towboat Theme,” “Cat’s Eye,” “PlainGrey,” “Dorica Theme,” “Tranceless”Further Listening:The Lonely Palette on Edward Hopper: bit.ly/3wyqg8YSupport the Show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an Ads
Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic
See the images:www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…ost-pandemicMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Noe Noe,” “A Certain Lightness,” “Algea Trio,” “Kilkerrin,” “Gullwing Sailor,” “Two Dollar Token,” “Silent Flock”Billie Holiday, “Blue Moon”Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of per
Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 2: The Figure
Artists Explored:Lalla Essaydi, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Sally Mann, Dawoud BeySee the Images:addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/Podcast.aspxMusic Used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Dirty Wallpaper,” “Polycoat,” “Pastel de Nata,” “Turning to You,” “The Consulate”Further Listening:The Lonely Palette on Mary Cassatt: bit.ly/3uFM9BjSupport the Show:www.patreon.com/lonely
Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 1: Abstraction
Artists Explored:Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Donald JuddSee the Images:addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/Podcast.aspxMusic Used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Pinky,” “Flattered,” “A Little Powder,” “Arizona Moon,” “Daymaze,” “The Summit,”Jason Leonard, “Ritual Six”Further Listening:The Lonely Palette on Jackson Pollock: bit.ly/3eUQdsEThe Lonely Palette on
Trailer - Look With Your Ears (in partnership with the Addison Gallery of American Art)
For more information on the exhibition, visit:addison.andover.edu/Exhibitions/90/…es/default.aspx.Music used:The Blue Dot Sessions, "Waterbourne" Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ep. 52 - Ólafur Elíasson's "Untitled (Spiral)" (2017)
Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Daymaze,” “Plate Glass,” “Discovery Harbor,” “Wahre,” “Checkered Blue,” “Quarry Clouds,” “Enter the Room”See the images:bit.ly/3sJUXWuSupport the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising
Ep. 51 - Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document" (1973-79)
See the images:bit.ly/3uaWHtaMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “La Inglesa,” “Eggs and Powder,” “Paper Feather,” “Arizona Moon,” ”Lowball,” “Palladian,” “Simple Vale”Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
TLP Interview with Ralph Steadman, Artist & Illustrator
[2:18]: Love of Picasso and Duchamp.[3:11]: Where do you start with caricature, the body or the soul?[5:40]: Drawing with a pen – “no such thing as a mistake.”[7:09]: The difference between illustration and “fine art”.[9:55]: Use of the geometric in Steadman’s work, ink spatter, a conversation with the paper.[13:10]: Coming to the U.S. in 1970, David Hockney “Paranoids”.[14:30]: Use of photographs
Ep. 50 - Carrie Mae Weems' "Not Manet's Type" (1997)
See the images:bit.ly/3omDroOMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jumbel,” “Turning to You,” “Pastel de Nata,” “Junca,” “Min,” “Basketliner”Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
TLP Interview with The Guerrilla Girls, Feminist Activists & Artists
[2:29]: Introductions.[3:41] Why choose these artists as your pseudonyms?[5:37]: The origin story of the Guerrilla Girls (and their font!).[8:17]: How has the group changed and evolved, both internally and in terms of its mission? Has progress been made?[15:49]: The joys and pitfalls of all-women shows. Is “woman artist” a problematic phrase?[23:18]: Is there something that innately connects women
Ep. 49 - Claes Oldenburg's "Giant Toothpaste Tube" (1964)
Somewhere between the life of the mind and the boots on the ground sits Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who wants us to see not only that both of those worlds are one and the same, but that there's value, and even beauty, to our stuff, and that maybe we can finally let ourselves admit it.See the images:bit.ly/3hcHjVqMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Sch
Episode 48 - Anselm Kiefer's "Margarete and Sulamith" (1981)
This episode was produced with support from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Learn more at www.sfmoma.com.See the images:bit.ly/31gUSwWMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Bus at Dawn,” “Silky,” Drone Pine,” “Tiny Bottles,” “Inamorata,” “Tapoco,” “The Summit,” “Cirrus,” “Derailed,” “Insatiable Toad,” “Dolly and Pad,” “A Pleasant Strike”John Williams, performed by Itzhak Perlman & Pittsbur
Ep. 47 - George Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" (1884-86)
Grab a parasol, put your monkey on a leash, and come spend Sunday in the Park with George, exploring how a canvas this monumental and as frozen as Dippin' Dots can help us better understand the world in his day, in Cameron Frye's, and in our own.See the images:https://bit.ly/2L0qPCgMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Fei
Ep. 40 Re-Release - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."This week: we go beneath the flowers, the unibrow, the broken body, and the shadow of her marriage, to reframe the fame of Frida Kahlo: the Cult Icon of Humanness.See the images:bit.ly/39qX739Music used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s
Ep. 46 - Patty Chang's "Melons (At A Loss)" (1998)
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."This week: you're rooted in place, unable to look away, and questioning everything you thought you know about femininity, self-nourishment, and a woman's right to her own body. Basically, Patty Chang's got you right where she want
Ep. 45 - Georgia O'Keeffe's "Deer's Skull with Pedernal" (1936)
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."This week: there's no better way to combat a world holding its breath than with a deep lungful of fresh Southwestern air, care of America's most misattributed painter of vagina flowers, Georgia O'Keeffe.See the images:bit.ly/39QXv
Ep. 44 - Louise Bourgeois' "Pillar" (1949-50)
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."This week: you’ve never noticed the carnality of the body you live in, and the rawness of the emotions that live inside that body, until you find yourself spun into French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois’s web.See the images:bi
Ep. 43 - Carmen Herrera's "Blanco y Verde (no. 1)" (1962)
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."This week: let's join 104-year-old Cuban-American Hard Edge painter Carmen Herrera in celebrating the straight line, not just the shortest distance between two points, but the most infinitely beautiful as well.See the images:www.t
Ep. 42 - Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1829–1831)
Sure, you've seen it a million times in a million memes, but when was the last time you actually stopped to contemplate the incredible power of this Japanese ukiyo-e print? Or for that matter, the incredible power of a wave itself?See the images:www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…awa-18301831Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Falaal,” “Dirty Wallpape
Ep. 41 - Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait" (1434)
Whoever said the devil was in the details clearly had a thing for Northern Renaissance portraiture.See the images:www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…ortrait-1434Music used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Our Son the Potter,” “Bundt,” “Pacing,” “Secret Pocketbook,” “Oriel,” “Floretin Interlude”Poddington Bear, “Clay”Joe Dassi
Bonus - Open Source, "The Bauhaus In Your House," ft. The Lonely Palette
The Lonely Palette is on break until November 2019, so every Wednesday in October, a different Hub & Spoke producer will take the host's chair to present an episode of their show that Tamar is especially fond of. Enjoy this month's podcast petri dish of art, culture, history, and society, and subscribe to any and all Hub & Spoke shows at www.hubspokeaudio.org.This week:Open Source with Christopher
Bonus - Artists of Camberville interviews Tamar Avishai
On July 29, 2019 (the day after the birth of my son!), host and producer Danielle Monroe posted this interview we had recorded the week before for her podcast "Artists of Camberville." This was one of best conversations I've ever had about the origins of "The Lonely Palette" and the trials and tribulations of art-viewing, meaning-making, script-writing, audio podcasting about
Ep. 40 - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)
See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-dos-mujeres
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jat Poure,” “Li Fonte,” “Clouds at the Gap,” “Master,” “When the Guests Have Left,” “Curiously and Curiously,” “Thread Ceylon,” “Gondola Blue”
Tinpan Orange, “Song for Frida Kahlo”
Support the show:
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Ep. 39 - Rembrandt van Rijn's "Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh" (1632)
It isn't 17th century Dutch art if we're not going so deeply into Rembrandt's soul and so close to the meticulous details of his virtuosic portraiture that we make the guards nervous.
See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…enburgh-1632
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lovers Hollow” “Tailru
TLP Interview with Dan Byers, Director of Harvard's Carpenter Center
Tamar met Dan when she was a worshipful high school freshman and he was (to her) an übercool junior who was not only the arts editor of Thoughtprints, the school's art/lit mag, but also spent his free time in the fine art studio, bending the charcoal like Beckmann. Now he's the Director of the Carpenter Center of Visual Arts at Harvard University, she's an art history podcaster, and they reconne
Ep. 38 - Wassily Kandinsky's "Untitled" (1922)
The later work of Russian ex-pat turned German Expressionist turned indispensable Bauhaus faculty member Wassily Kandinsky is a lot like the Bauhaus itself: a disparate collection of pieces parts that ends up assembling itself into a transparent, efficient, powerfully cohesive, form-follows-function whole.
This episode was a collaboration with WBUR's Radio Open Source: check them out at radioopens
Ep. 37 - Ansel Adams' "The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming" (1942)
Let's explore America the Beautiful, the Complicated, and the Contradictory, where a purple mountain has no sense of its own majesty, through the lens of the quintessential dorm room poster photographer Ansel Adams.
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/3/8/episode-37-ansel-adams-the-tetons-and-snake-river-grand-teton-national-park-wyoming-1942
Music used:
Django Reinhardt,
Ep. 36 - Behold the Monkey
The fruits of the Second Annual Year-End Patreon Listener Challenge has us staring directly into the cold dead eyes of the beast! How could this restoration of a forgotten 19th century Spanish fresco have gotten so grotesquely botched, and what does it tell us about the challenges of art restoration, religious iconography, and iconoclasm? And more importantly, Jesus, why do you look like a shark?
TLP Interview with Cecilia Vicuña, Poet & Artist
On October 10, 2018, both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Cecilia Vicuña herself were generous enough to give me the opportunity to take a few moments away from the installation of "Disappeared Quipu" and interview Vicuña. We talked about bridging the masculinity of Land Art and the femininity of Fiber Art, the origins of Vicuña's life as an artist, and how her own awareness has evo
Ep. 35 - Cecilia Vicuña's "Disappeared Quipu" (2018)
Thick woolen knots, suspended from the ceiling, alive with projections and immersed in sound. You might not realize that Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña has woven together your awareness of your own awareness, but maybe you just needed some help translating it.
See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…d-quipu-2018
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "
Ep. 34 - Dance Dance Revolution
We're trying a little something different today: what happens when Disney scares the pants off you as a kid, and then, in mining the roots of your existential dread, you realize that Henri Matisse and Igor Stravinsky both had their pants scared off too, and that explains a whole heck of a lot about early 20th century modernism? Let's find out together.
See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/epis
Ep. 33 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "The Desired Moment" (c. 1770)
Powder those wigs and ungird those loins: today we're diving deep into the curves, pastels, and licentious yearnings of a ridiculously saucy little style known as Rococo.
See the Images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/9/8/episode-33-jean-honor-fragonard-the-desired-moment-c-1770
Music Used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Th
Ep. 32 - René Magritte's "The Son of Man" (1964)
Ever have a day when you just feel a little... blocked? Well, sure as God made little green apples, Surrealist René Magritte feels you.
See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-of-man-1964
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, "Django's Tiger"
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Roundpine", "Borough", "Building Th
Ep. 31 - Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Byrd Theater, Richmond, 1993" (1993)
Trying to capture time in art is like trying to pin a wave upon the sand or hold a moonbeam in your hand. So leave it to Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto to do it so effectively by taking us to the Golden Age of Cinema.
"Seeking Stillness" is on view at the MFA, Boston until September 3, 2018.
See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…nd-1993-1993
Music used:
The Andrew
Ep. 30 - Donatello's "Madonna of the Clouds" (c. 1425-1435)
Join the OG Ninja Turtle as he guides you into the Renaissance by way of an exquisite tour of heaven.See the images.Music Used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"Lobo Loco, "Piano Cora Theme"The Blue Dot Sessions, "UpUpUp and Over", "Slow Line Stomp", "Lakeside Path", "Perspiration", "Threads and Veils", "Moon Bicycle Theme"Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"Support the show by becoming a p
Ep. 29 - Egon Schiele's "Nude Self-Portrait" (1910)
Welcome to the cult of the punk: where the skin is flayed, the contortions are twisty, and the struggle is real. So why can't we get enough?See the images.Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, "Taoudella", "Fifteen Street", "Smooth Stone", "Scraper", "Then A Gambling Problem", "Warm Fingers", "Chrome and Wax"Support the show by becoming a patron or by just
Ep. 28 - Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece" (1964)
Yoko Ono. You may have heard of her. She hooked up with that musician that time. Just under the wire, we end Women's History Month with a peek beneath Ono's art and reputation - and why we need to reconsider both.See the images.Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, "Plaster Combo", "Valantis", "Strange Dog Walk", "Hundred Mile", "Down at the Bank""Joe Dassi
Ep. 27 - Roy Lichtenstein's "Ohhh... Alright..." (1964)
Can a comic strip be elevated to fine art? Or is Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein just plain dotty?See the images.Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, "Le Marais", "The Molerat", "Lemon and Melon", "Via Verre", "Lord Weasel", "Entrap"Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"Support the show by becoming a patron or by just sending us a tip. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWi
Bonus - Keepers of the Culture (Live Event at the PRX Podcast Garage)
In this special episode, we listen to the audio from the live event at the PRX Podcast Garage, "Keepers of the Culture: A Celebration of Meduna and Holmes," which I had the privilege of participating in at the end of January. In it I chat with collage artist Ekua Holmes, play her some audio I produced on her work, and then we listen to art historian Barry Gathier give the curator talk to end all c
Ep. 26 - C.M. Coolidge's "Dogs Playing Poker" (1903)
Your Listener Patreon Challenge has been accepted! And now, let's dive together into kitsch: the frequency low enough for us all to hear.See the images.Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, "Rose Ornamental," "Flattered," "Arizona Moon," "Laser Focus," "Alchemical," "Two in the Back," "Maisie Dreamer," "Gullwing Sailor," "Maldoc"Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elys
Ep. 25 - Mission: Mona Lisa
Our lady of the hour, muse of Dan Brown, satisfier of bucket lists, those eyes, that smile, La Gioconda, El Hefe. Just in time for the holidays, we bring you a super-sized episode on a super-sized love affair with a dinky little portrait. See the images. Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Tar and Spackle", "Welcome Home Sonny", "Caprese", "Tiny Putty"
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