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Gaytriarchs: A Gay Dads PodcastThe one with Tamar AvishaiThis week, David goes on "vacation," Gavin is the asshole (again), the Pope continues to bless gay marriages, we rank the top 3 road trip albums, and this week, we are joined by podcasting royalty Tamar Avishai who talks to us about her podcast, "The Lonely Palette," wether she fosters art for her kids, and what it's like to have a newborn for the third time.Questions? Comments? Rants? Raves? Send them to GaytriarchsPodcast@gmail.com, or you can DM us anywhere @GaytriarchsPodcast
2025-07-2357 min
ParentData with Emily OsterParentData Presents: The Lonely Palette's "Mary Kelly's Postpartum Document (1973-78)"Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and after a fall – and a year – of divisiveness, could all use a holiday in which Americans are united in the task of consuming too much pie. More broadly, this holiday, more than really any other, is something Americans tend to do together. And so is parenting. Especially the beginning. The experience of having a newborn – the sleeplessness, the disconnection from reality, the wonder….it feels magical and unique, and yet also like a line connecting us to billions of people through the past. Today on ParentData, we're featuring an episode f...
2024-11-2846 min
Wellness, Actually with Emily Oster & Perry Wilson, MDParentData Presents: The Lonely Palette's "Mary Kelly's Postpartum Document (1973-78)"Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and after a fall – and a year – of divisiveness, could all use a holiday in which Americans are united in the task of consuming too much pie. More broadly, this holiday, more than really any other, is something Americans tend to do together. And so is parenting. Especially the beginning. The experience of having a newborn – the sleeplessness, the disconnection from reality, the wonder….it feels magical and unique, and yet also like a line connecting us to billions of people through the past. Today on ParentData, we're featuring an episode f...
2024-11-2846 min
The Lonely PaletteBonus - 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 an evening of audio camaraderie. Register here.- Explore our Hub & Spoke Expo showcase, starting with the first episode of our very first exclusive Expo...
2024-11-0123 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 18 - A TLP Announcement! And Introducing The Rabbis Go SouthTamar 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 an evening of audio camaraderie. Register here: https://bit.ly/3Cd05fB
- Explore our Hub & Spoke Expo showcase, starting with the first episode of our very first exclusive Expo...
2024-11-0123 min
lets talk art with brooke » podcastsCatching up with podcast host, Tamar Avishai
Episode 595: Listen as I catch up with the host of The Lonely Palette podcast, Tamar Avishai. She’s got lots going on. She did the audio for the MOMA exhibition of German artist, Kathe Kallowitz. On a dare, she did an awesome episode on the infamous Dogs Playing Poker painting. Don’t miss my other chat with her.
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2024-10-1432 min
Stories of Sound9. Tamar AvishaiTamar Avishai is an art historian turned finance administrator turned independent radio producer. She worked for years as an art history instructor and an adjunct lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.In each episode of her podcast The Lonely Palette, she focuses on one object – a painting, a sculpture, an installation, a very special urinal – and tells its story, exploring the artwork, the movement, the social context.– – –Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative p...
2024-06-1236 min
SoonishLooking Back at 50 Episodes of SoonishAfter a long hiatus, Soonish is back for a celebration: this is the 50th full episode of the show! (I’m not counting a few bonus episodes in that total.) Tamar Avishai, creator and host of the Hub & Spoke podcast The Lonely Palette, joins this time as co-host to help us take a look back at the first 49 episodes of the show. She quizzes me on the accuracy of many of the technology forecasts and predictions I offered along the way. And she prompts me to explain how the show has evolved since its launch in 2017, why it’s beco...
2024-02-191h 05
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 17 - The Hub & Spoke Radio HourThe 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 in a space some may generously call post-apocalyptic. But an incredible silver lining is that the industry is now recognizing how important independence is. We've been here all along, and with your support, we're not going anywhere.
Please enjoy a bonus...
2024-02-1450 min
The Lonely PaletteBonus - The Hub & Spoke Radio HourThe 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 in a space some may generously call post-apocalyptic. But an incredible silver lining is that the industry is now recognizing how important independence is. We've been here all along, and with your support, we're not going anywhere.
2024-02-1450 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 16: Tamar Avishai interviews Lucy R. Lippard, Art WriterSince 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 – photographs, drawings, relationships, grandchildren – is the subject of her new memoir, or, actually, what she calls “Stuff (Instead of a Memoir).” She joined me to talk about the book, but also more th...
2023-12-2945 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 15: Tamar Avishai interviews Prudence Peiffer, Author and Content Director, MoMAIn 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 artists created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation.
Prudence Peiffer is the kind of art historian who understands the importance of context and place, and her book, “The Slip: The New York City Street th...
2023-10-1355 min
The Lonely PaletteBonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari on Sandro BotticelliThis 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 Miller, “Tuxedo Junction”The Blue Dot Sessions, “Belle Anette”Our website:www.thelonelypalette.comSupport the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette...
2023-09-1421 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 13: The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari on Sandro BotticelliGiorgio Vasari (1511-74) may have gone down in history as the very first Western art historian, but he is also a messy bench who loves drama, and we are here for it. Listen to his take on Sandro Botticelli from “The Lives of the Artists” (Bondanella trans., 1991), particularly his practical jokes, from which no friend or neighbor escaped unscathed.
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. Than...
2023-09-1221 min
The Maria Liberati ShowHappy Birthday Leonardo! - With Tamar AvishaiThank you to all of our listeners for interacting, listening and sharing the show every week. Today, Maria is joined by Tamar Avishai, podcaster and art historian, to discuss the works of Leonardo DaVinci!
Enter, "The Maria Liberati Show," based on her travels, as well as her Gourmand World Award-winning book series, "The Basic Art of Italian Cooking," and "The Basic Art of..." Find out more on https://www.marialiberati.com
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2023-04-0619 min
The Maria Liberati ShowHappy Birthday Leonardo! - With Tamar AvishaiThank you to all of our listeners for interacting, listening and sharing the show every week. Today, Maria is joined by Tamar Avishai, podcaster and art historian, to discuss the works of Leonardo DaVinci! Enter, "The Maria Liberati Show," based on her travels, as well as her Gourmand World Award-winning book series, "The Basic Art of Italian Cooking," and "The Basic Art of..." Find out more on https://www.marialiberati.com ----- Intro music: "A Quick Coffee" by Borrtex - available via Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ Outro music: "First Day of Spring" by David Hilowitz...
2023-04-0619 min
AudienceArt and Vox Pop with Tamar AvishaiStuart and Tamar go inside her critically acclaimed podcast, The Lonely Palette. The Lonely Palatte started its wonderful journey in 2016, a different time for podcasts where things were both uncomplicated but also uncharted. Tamar talks about her experiences in podcasting, the importance of art history, how to bring visual art to an auditory medium, and different types of guests and what they can bring to a show.
If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to Castos.com/podcast. And as always, if you’re en...
2023-03-0255 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 09 - Tamar Avishai interviews Avery Trufelman, Design and Fashion PodcasterA number of years ago, my Twitter pinged. Then it pinged again. All of a sudden, a whole host of people were following the show, and when I giddily found the source, it was the soulful and stylish Avery Trufelman, longtime 99% Invisible producer, currently of Articles of Interest, and fashionista tastemaker, who had pronounced The Lonely Palette her favorite art history podcast. Bestill my heart! It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, a kinship between co-founders of a mutual admiration society where the stories of stuff - art, objects, design, things, everything they say you can’t put on th...
2022-12-301h 10
The Lonely PaletteTLP Interview with Dar Williams, Singer-SongwriterDar 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 friendship has been evolving ever since, exploring together the rigors of writing and storytelling through sound and song, and what it means to dip in and out of a creative space as a way of s...
2022-10-071h 13
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 08 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dar Williams, Singer-SongwriterDar 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 friendship has been evolving ever since, exploring together the rigors of writing and storytelling through sound and song, and what it means to dip in and out of a creative space as a way of simpl...
2022-10-071h 13
Sophomore LitThe Picture of Dorian GrayThe podcasts that the world calls immoral are podcasts that show the world its own shame. Tamar Avishai and John discuss Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1831).
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2022-10-0653 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 07 - Tamar Avishai interviews Adam Gopnik, Critic, The New YorkerThere isn’t a single subject that Adam Gopnik’s prose can’t bring to life. As staff writer at the New Yorker since 1986, he has written about almost everything, including, just in the last year, Proust, gun control, the Beatles, and the Marquis de Lafayette. But it’s when he starts writing about art that things get particularly delectable: “the runny, the spilled…the lipstick-traces-left-on-the-kleenex” life and style of Helen Frankenthaler; “the paint, laid on with a palette knife, that deliciously resembles cake frosting” technique of Florine Stettheimer; “the monumental and mock-monumental that tango in the imagination” of Claes Oldenburg.
And perha...
2022-09-021h 07
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 06 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dr. Charlotte Mullins, Art Critic and BroadcasterArt history textbooks, so excellent for flattening curled-up rug corners and holding open doors, are expected to tell us the entire story of our civilization, one painting at a time. It's more than any book, even one that weighs a spine-crunching twenty-five pounds, should be expected to do. And it opens our eyes to the way that history is narrated, and taught, and even, it follows, to how paintings are displayed, and museums are curated. So much is touched on; so much is left out. It's too much, and far too little, all at once.
Dr. Charlotte Mullins has decided...
2022-08-2657 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 51 - Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document" (1973-79)The Lonely Palette is on maternity leave until early March, which means that for the next few weeks, we'll be turning to the archives to feature episodes specific to the many shades of motherhood. This episode, from February 2021, speaks not just to the hazy, cozy, time-out-of-joint space that Tamar is currently in, but also to the state of the pandemic, which, unfortunately, doesn't feel much sunnier today than it did a year ago. But what good is a mom if not to help us see our way out of the fog?
See the images:
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Music used:
The...
2022-01-1937 min
Hi-Phi NationMemorialsWhen tragedy strikes an individual, a nation, or an entire people, artists and architects are tasked with designing a public display that memorializes the event and its victims. But how do you do that? In this episode, art historian and podcaster Tamar Avishai examines the Denkmal Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Vietnam War Memorial in DC, and others to look at how respecting and remembering loss collides with the demands of history and politics. We look at why abstract rather than representational memorials resonate better with people in recent years, and whether memorials, no...
2021-12-1851 min
Hi-Phi Nation PlusMemorialsWhen tragedy strikes an individual, a nation, or an entire people, artists and architects are tasked with designing a public display that memorializes the event and its victims. But how do you do that? In this episode, art historian and podcaster Tamar Avishai examines the Denkmal Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Vietnam War Memorial in DC, and others to look at how respecting and remembering loss collides with the demands of history and politics. We look at why abstract rather than representational memorials resonate better with people in recent years, and whether memorials, no...
2021-12-1847 min
The Lonely PaletteTLP Interview with Dr. Rachel Saunders, Curator, Harvard Art MuseumsSee 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 information about our collection and use of personal data for a...
2021-07-2359 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp 0.5 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dr. Rachel Saunders, Harvard Art MuseumsLike so many of us, Dr. Rachel Saunders had a tough 2020. As the curator of Asian art at the Harvard Art Museums, she was thrilled to co-curate, with professor Yukio Lippit, the exhibition "Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection," the largest single exhibition the museum had ever mounted. And then, a month after its opening, it was shuttered by Covid, and remained closed until the entire exhibition came down early last month.
But what could have been a bitter disappointment actually became exceptionally educational - perhaps par for the course at a prestigious university art museum, but with...
2021-07-2359 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 37 - Ansel Adams' "The Tetons and Snake River" (1942)Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Vibrant Canopy”, “Bridgewalker”, “The Yards”, “Silver Lanyard”, “Velvet Ladder”Tamar Avishai, “Michigan”Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"See the images:bit.ly/2znbBELSupport the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
2021-04-2227 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 37 - Ansel Adams' "The Tetons and Snake River" (1942)In honor of Earth Day 2021, we're re-releasing our episode on quintessential dorm room photographer Ansel Adams, and re-exploring how his own travels around, and documentation of, this complicated, contradictory, beautiful country inspired him to want to preserve it - from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam - in the most exquisite way possible.
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Vibrant Canopy”, “Bridgewalker”, “The Yards”, “Silver Lanyard”, “Velvet Ladder”
Tamar Avishai, “Michigan”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
See the images:
https://bit.ly/2znbBEL
Support the show:
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2021-04-2227 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp 0.4 - Tamar Avishai interviews Ralph SteadmanYou’ve seen the work of 84-year-old Welsh artist and illustrator Ralph Steadman, even if you haven’t realized it. His searing political caricature and trademark flying ink spatter have illustrated major works of literature and journalism for the past half-century – and most notably the hallucinogenic writing of Hunter S. Thompson, resulting in an alchemic collaboration that wove together journalism and illustration to create what history has described as Gonzo, and what Steadman calls the meeting between an ex-Hell’s Angel with a shaved head and a matted-haired geek with string warts.
We spoke in advance of his new retrospective, “Ralph Stea...
2020-12-1836 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp 0.3 - Tamar Avishai interviews The Guerrilla GirlsThe Guerrilla Girls, the self-professed "Conscience of the Art World," are a band of feminist activist artists, who have been wearing gorilla masks in public and using facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender bias, ethnic bias, and corruption in the art world since the mid-1980s. Join Tamar for a conversation with two of their founding members.
[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...
2020-11-1346 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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 that both of those worlds are one and the same, and that there's value, and even beauty, to our joy-sparking stuff (and maybe we can finally let ourselves admit it.)
See the images:
https://bit.ly/3hcHjVq
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Cradle Rock,” “Sylvestor,” “A Little Powder,” “Our Only Lark,” “Town Market,” “Contrarian,” “The Rampart”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
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2020-09-1036 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 48 - Anselm Kiefer's "Margarete" and "Sulamith" (1981)The art of postwar German artist Anselm Kiefer and the poetry of Holocaust survivor Paul Celan have a lot in common. They’re both layered, dense, hard to read, and most of the time you’re not quite sure if you get it. And while this might seem like an onerous way to understand history, sometimes the best starting point is through the layered, dense, and idiosyncratic ways that an individual processes trauma. So grab a spelunking hardhat and together we'll mine these layers of metaphor and materials, texture and text, golden straw and blackened ash, that comprise the unimaginable.
This...
2020-08-0355 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. - Keepers of the Culture: an Evening with Ekua Holmes and Dr. Barry GaitherIn honor of Juneteenth, we're re-releasing the audio of a live event from January 2018 at the PRX Podcast Garage, titled "Keepers of the Culture: A Celebration Of Maduna And Holmes." The evening was a celebration of two award-winning artists, collaborators, and friends, whose work was on display at the garage's exhibition space. Their sculptures, masks, and collage-based works are an exploration of ancestral voices, family histories, and the power of hope, faith and self-determination.
The evening was divided into two parts: a conversation between Ekua and Tamar, which included audio produced around Ekua's collage, "All Fly Home," and an exploration...
2020-06-1935 min
The Lonely PaletteTeaserEp 0.2 - The Raw Material Summer Mixtape (in partnership with SFMOMA)I'm thrilled to share the teaser for the upcoming season of Raw Material from SFMOMA, which I have the privilege of guest hosting. The season is a curated "mixtape" of art and art-adjacence podcasts (including episodes from 99% Invisible, Everything Is Alive, Recording Artists, and others, including a bonus new episode of The Lonely Palette), all of which explore the idea of The Beholder's Share: why an audience is so necessary for an artwork to become its most fully-realized self. This is an urgent-enough question on its own, but during a pandemic, when museums are closed, it becomes vital. So let's...
2020-06-0104 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 31 - Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Byrd Theater, Richmond, 1993" (1993)The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and we're partnering up to bring the museum to you during its closure due to Covid-19 by spotlighting both the rock star and the lesser-known objects from the museum's permanent collection. So relax into your PJs, put your feet up, and let's #MuseumFromHome together.
This week: 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...
2020-05-2829 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 16 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (1888)The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and we're partnering up to bring the museum to you during its closure due to Covid-19 by spotlighting both the rock star and the lesser-known objects from the museum's permanent collection. So relax into your PJs, put your feet up, and let's #MuseumFromHome together.
This week: You've just had a manic break, cut off a piece of your ear, and gifted it to a prostitute. Who ya gonna call? Your get-a-grip postman friend, of course!
See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/3/27/episode-16-vincent-van-goghs-postman-joseph-roulin-1888
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2020-05-2122 min
The Wise Fool Art PodcastArt Historian + Podcaster, Tamar Avishai, The Lonely Palette (Ohio, USA)We discussed: Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation, Art as a point of entry to narrative story telling, Art academia, Hub & Spoke, Radiotopia, Soonish podcast, Ministry of Ideas, Podcast collectives, Open Source podcast, The 'dumbing down' of art, Questioning the object history of art, Paul Gauguin was an asshole, The role of an art historian, The difference between being good and being great in the arts world, That we should be questioning the canon of Art History, Patty Chang, Why art education matters, Artist statements are bullshit.
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2020-05-191h 05Podcast | The Wise Fool Art PodcastArt Historian + Podcaster, Tamar Avishai, The Lonely Palette (Ohio, USA)
We discussed: Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory & Educational Foundation, Art as a point of entry to narrative story telling, Art academia, Hub & Spoke, Radiotopia, Soonish podcast, Ministry of Ideas, Podcast collectives, Open Source podcast, The ‘dumbing down’ of art, Questioning the object history of art, Paul Gauguin was an asshole, The role of an art historian, The difference between being good and being great in the arts world, That we should be questioning the canon of Art History, Patty Chang, Why art education matters, Artist statements are bullshit.
http://www.thelonelypalette.com
Tamar Avishai is t...
2020-05-191h 05
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 9 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Reclining Nude" (1909)The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and we're partnering up to bring the museum to you during its closure due to Covid-19 by spotlighting both the rock star and the lesser-known objects from the museum's permanent collection. So relax into your PJs, put your feet up, and let's #MuseumFromHome together.
This week: German Expressionists get hot. Nazis get bothered.
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/9/28/episode-9-ernst-ludwig-kirchners-reclining-nude-1910
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
David Szeszlay, "Night Surfing"
Michael Howard, "The Tallest Man in Idaho (Instrumental)"
Jason...
2020-05-1421 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 15 - El Anatsui's "Black River" (2009)The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and we're partnering up to bring the museum to you during its closure due to Covid-19 by spotlighting both the rock star and the lesser-known objects from the museum's permanent collection. So relax into your PJs, put your feet up, and let's #MuseumFromHome together.
This week: one man's trash is Ghanian artist El Anatsui's treasure.
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/3/1/episode-15-el-anatsuis-black-river-2009
Music used:
Podington Bear, "Down and Around"
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Coronea", "Mercurial...
2020-05-0721 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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/2L0qPCg
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Feisty and Tacky,” “Stack Me Up,” “Base Camp,” “Thannoid,” “PolyCoat,” “Slow Rollout”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
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2020-05-0432 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 39 - Rembrandt van Rijn's "Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh" (1632)The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and we're partnering up to bring the museum to you during its closure due to Covid-19 by spotlighting both the rock star and the lesser-known objects from the museum's permanent collection. So relax into your PJs, put your feet up, and let's #MuseumFromHome together.
This week: it isn't 17th century Dutch art if we're not going so deep into Rembrandt's soul and so close to the meticulous details of his virtuosic portraiture that we make the guards nervous.
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/5/23...
2020-04-3029 min
The Lonely PaletteRe-ReleaseEp. 40 - 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:
https://bit.ly/39qX739
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 f...
2020-03-2936 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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 know TFW you’re rooted in place in front of a video screen, feeling unbearably uncomfortable yet unable to look away, and questioning everything you thought you knew about femininity, self-nourishment, and a woman’s relationship with her own body? Yeah, Patty Chang’s got you right where she wants you.
See the images:
https://bit.ly/33DsB4P
Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Flatlands 3rd,” “Louver,” “Sino de Cobre,” “Dor...
2020-03-2228 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://bit.ly/39QXvsJ
Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Cold and Hard,” “Georgia Overdrive,” “Towboat Theme,” “Noe Noe,” “Raskt Landsby,” “Watercool Quiet,” “Cottonwoods”
The Nields, “Georgia O”
Exhibition site:
https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor
Support the sho
2020-03-1528 min
The Constant: A History of Getting Things WrongThe Foolkiller Pt 5: The White WhaleHere we are. We've examined arctic explorers, secret armies, zany daredevils, Wisconsin whiz kids and so many more only to come up empty. This is the end of the rope. Can we solve the mystery of The Foolkiller, the submarine discovered in the Chicago River in 1915, or is this one just meant to be a mystery forever. Stick around and find out. Get a free trial of The Great Courses Plus and three months of unlimited access for just $30 dollars by going to https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/theconstant (https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/theconstant)Get 10% off your first month of...
2020-03-101h 51
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://bit.ly/3axRwIY
Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Tiptoe Treadline,” “Gusty Hollow,” “Stately Shadows",” “Jog to the Water,” “Pinky”
Exhibition site:
https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor
Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonely
2020-03-0824 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2020/2/5/episode-43-carmen-herreras-blanco-y-verde-no-1-1962
Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Throughput,” “Scallat,” “Rally,” “Where It All Happened,” “The Consulate”
Exhibition site:
https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor
Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
2020-03-0123 min
The Lonely PaletteTeaserEp 0.1: The Series "Women Take the Floor" (in partnership with the MFA Boston)The Lonely Palette is the first podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston! Our partnership is focused on their ongoing exhibition, "Women Take the Floor," a daring and unflinching effort to bring the women artists - that is, artists - out from the shadows of their permanent collection and onto the floor. The series will focus on five women over five weeks, beginning Sunday, March 1st. Please enjoy!
Music used:
Lobo Loco, "Old Ralley"
Exhibition site:
https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor
Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
2020-02-2804 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 42 - Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (c. 1829-1832)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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2020/2/5/episode-42-katsushika-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa-18301831
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Falaal,” “Dirty Wallpaper,” “Ghost Byzantine,” “Moon Bicycle Theme,” “Eleven,” “Clouds at the Gap”
Charles Trenet, “La Mer”
Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
2020-02-2636 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/11/17/episode-41-jan-van-eycks-arnolfini-double-portrait-1434
Music 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 Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Support the show:
patreon.com/lonelypalette
2019-11-3026 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.5 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Culture HustlersThe 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:
Lucas Spivey's Culture Hustlers is a podcast for artists who mean business. This episode takes us to Art Prize in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and specifically to winner Le'Andra Leseur turned a $5k grant into a $200k installation...
2019-10-3034 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.4 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Ministry of IdeasThe 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:Zachary Davis's Ministry of Ideas is a small show about big ideas, presented as punchy secular sermons. This episode tackles that thorny issue, Modernity. Many think modernity is about the rise of science...
2019-10-2433 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.4 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Ministry of IdeasThe 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:
Zachary Davis's Ministry of Ideas is a small show about big ideas, presented as punchy secular sermons. This episode tackles that thorny issue, Modernity. Many think modernity is about the rise of science, the spread of democracy...
2019-10-2333 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.3 - Hub & Spoke Presents: The ConstantThe 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:The Constant is a podcast about our history of getting things wrong. In this episode, host Mark Chrisler introduces us to Laszio Toth, who, believing he was Jesus Christ, entered St. Peter's Basilica...
2019-10-1629 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.3 - Hub & Spoke Presents: The ConstantThe 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:
The Constant is a podcast about our history of getting things wrong. In this episode, host Mark Chrisler introduces us to Laszio Toth, who, believing he was Jesus Christ, entered St. Peter's Basilica on May 21st, 1972 and...
2019-10-1629 min
The Lonely PaletteBonus - Open Source, "The Bauhaus In Your House," ft. The Lonely PaletteThe 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 Lydon is a local conversation with global attitude. "The Bauhaus in Your House," which originally aired on 90.9 WBUR in April 2019, is an exploration of art, architecture, and design with T...
2019-10-0950 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.2 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Open SourceThe 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 Lydon is a local conversation with global attitude. "The Bauhaus in Your House," which originally aired on 90.9 WBUR in April 2019, is an exploration of art, architecture, and design with Tamar Avishai, Peter Chermayeff...
2019-10-0950 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.1 - Hub & Spoke Presents: IconographyThe 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:Charles Gustine's Iconography, a podcast about icons, real and imagined. Just in time for New England leaf-peeping, this episode tackles Plymouth Rock, which visitors tend to find...underwhelming - a small, scarred rock...
2019-10-031h 01
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.1 - Hub & Spoke Presents: IconographyThe 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:
Charles Gustine's Iconography, a podcast about icons, real and imagined. Just in time for New England leaf-peeping, this episode tackles Plymouth Rock, which visitors tend to find...underwhelming - a small, scarred rock in a cage. Maybe...
2019-10-021h 01
The Lonely PaletteBonus - Artists of Camberville interviews Tamar AvishaiOn 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 the visual, and, like, a little bit about The Bachelorette. Enjoy!
00:10: Introduction.
00:41: Laying the groundwork for starting "The Lonely Palette".
4:18: Clip from "Episode 24: Meditations on Mark Rothko".
6:12: Permission to slow down in front of a work...
2019-08-1032 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 0.3 - Tamar Avishai interview with Artists of CambervilleOn 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 the visual, and, like, a little bit about The Bachelorette. Enjoy!
00:10: Introduction.
00:41: Laying the groundwork for starting "The Lonely Palette".
4:18: Clip from "Episode 24: Meditations on Mark Rothko".
6:12: Permission to slow down in front of a work of art. What is the best...
2019-08-0932 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 40 - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)In which 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/7/14/episode-40-frida-kahlos-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:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
Episode sponsors:
www.thegreatcourses.com/lonely
www.visualartspassage.com/palette
2019-07-1937 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 39 - Rembrandt van Rijn's "Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh" (1632)It isn't 17th century Dutch art if we're not going so deep into Rembrandt's soul and so close to the meticulous details of his virtuosic portraiture that we make the guards nervous.
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/5/23/episode-39-rembrandt-van-rijns-portrait-of-aeltje-uylenburgh-1632
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lovers Hollow” “Tailrunner,” “Entwined Oddity,” “Lupi,” “Thannoid,” “Camp Fermin”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
Thanks to our episode sponsors:
www.thegreatcourses.com/lonely
www.visualartspassage.com
2019-06-0731 min
Podcast Radio HourCaroline Crampton: The Lonely Palette and Flash ForwardAmanda Litherland is joined by Caroline Crampton to recommend great podcasts. This week, they recommend two independent podcasts and speak to their creators. The Lonely Palette is an art history podcast by Tamar Avishai. In each episode Tamar focuses on one work of art and looks into the movement, the social context, the anecdotes, and anything and everything else that will make it as exciting to you as it is to her. Flash Forward is a podcast about the future by Rose Eveleth. Each episode takes on a possible (or not so possible...
2019-04-261h 00
The Lonely PaletteTLP Interview with Dan Byers, Director of Harvard's Carpenter CenterTamar 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 reconnected in the Busch-Reisinger galleries in front of Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in a Tuxedo" from 1927 to talk about self-portraiture, self-evolution, and the limitations of peaking in high school.
2019-04-0522 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 0.2 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dan Byers, Director of Harvard's Carpenter CenterTamar 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 reconnected in the Busch-Reisinger galleries in front of Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in a Tuxedo" from 1927 to talk about self-portraiture, self-evolution, and the limitations of peaking in high school.
[00:17] - Describing t...
2019-04-0422 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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 radioopensource.org, and listen to their show on the Bauhaus Centennial on April 11, 2019 at 9:00pm EDT on 90.9 WBUR Boston.
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/3/24/episode-38-wasily-kandinskys-untitled-1922
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
Thelonious Monk, “Misterioso”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Sc...
2019-03-2830 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Vibrant Canopy”, “Bridgewalker”, “The Yards”, “Silver Lanyard”, “Velvet Ladder”
Tamar Avishai, “Michigan”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
Sponsors:
www.thegre...
2019-03-1531 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Vibrant Canopy”, “Bridgewalker”, “The Yards”, “Silver Lanyard”, “Velvet Ladder”
Tamar Avishai, “Michigan”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
Sponsors:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely
www.visualartspassage.com
2019-03-1531 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 36 - Behold the MonkeyThe 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 you look like a shark?
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/1/25/episode-36-behold-the-monkey-the-ecce-homo-restoration
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Sylvestor”, “Mute Steps”, “Mr. Graves”, “Lobo Lobo”, “Lumber Down”, “Cloudy Ci...
2019-01-3140 min
Third Coast Pocket ConferencePodcasting Without a Net(work) Day 2 (2018)Individual podcasters working with slim budgets and strained resources share how they create their best work while trying to grow audiences and raise money, often while holding down another full time job...At the 2018 Third Coast Conference, this session explore the “podcasting alone” terrain, including: how to choose a compelling narrative-based podcast concept worth your moonlighting hours, making the most of your limited budget, and how to find partners, audiences, and more support — all while maintaining a sense of creative joy about your show. Hosted by Julie Shapiro of Radiotopia (PRX), who fields questions like t...
2019-01-1600 min
The Lonely PaletteBonusEp. 0.1 - Tamar Avishai interviews artist Cecilia VicuñaOn 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 evolved throughout her career.
2018-12-1419 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/12/1/episode-35-cecilia-vicuas-disappeared-quipu-2018
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Face of the Thrush”, “We Build With Rubber Bands”, “Vdet”, “Between Stones”, “Cover Letter”, “Gentle Son”
Support the show!
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/2018listenerchallenge
Episode sponsor:
https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely
2018-12-1431 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 34 - Dance Dance RevolutionWe'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 respective pants scared off too, and that this communal pants-scaring explains a whole heck of a lot about early 20th century modernism?
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/10/27/episode-34-dance-dance-revolution
Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Igor Stravinsky, “The Rite of Spring”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Monder”, “House of Grendel”, “Threa...
2018-11-1441 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Mknt”, “The Big Ten”, “Vernouillet”, “Swapping Tubes”, “Line Etching”, “Fern and Andy”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Sponsor:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely
Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
2018-09-1430 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/8/24/episode-32-ren-magrittes-son-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 The Sled", "Rate Sheet", "Lick Stick", "Pull Beyond Pull"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Sponsors:
http://www.danasaylor.com/retreat
http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely
Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette
2018-08-2829 min
Stride & SaunterEpisode 203: Why We Study Art HistoryMany of us approach the realm of art history with degrees of apprehension, uncertainty and intellectual dread. We treat its topics as pedantic and its concepts as cumbersome, but why? This week, we welcome Tamar Avishai to discuss the study of art history and how it might inform the world beyond the field. What can the subject teach us about storytelling or the detachments of the ivory tower? How do we make art history and other topics unnecessarily distant because of our perceptions?
2018-08-0130 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/7/5/episode-31-hiroshi-sugimotos-byrd-theater-richmond-1993-1993
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Cash Cow", "Aourourou", "A Little Powder", "Delicious", "Astrisx", "Bliste"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Today's sponsors:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely
ht...
2018-07-1331 min
Raw MaterialMixtape Episode 1: Mary Cassatt by The Lonely PaletteWomen artists are often compared to one another but not to their male contemporaries. Learn how Mary Cassatt became one of the most important Impressionist painters of—and ahead of—her time by using the nineteenth-century Paris Opera House as an unlikely backdrop for feminist commentary.
This episode is produced and hosted by Tamar Avishai © The Lonely Palette 2017. More episodes at http://www.thelonelypalette.com/.
2018-06-1825 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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 image:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/5/28/episode-30-donatellos-madonna-of-the-clouds-c-1425-1435
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"
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2018-05-3126 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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 image:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/4/23/episode-29-egon-schieles-nude-self-portrait-1910
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"
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2018-04-2729 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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 image:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/3/29/episode-28-yoko-onos-cut-piece-1964
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 Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
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2018-03-3028 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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?
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http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/3/5/episode-27-roy-lichtensteins-ohhhalright-1964
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"
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2018-03-0826 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/2/13/episode-26-cm-coolidges-dogs-playing-poker-1903
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-Elysees"
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2018-02-1538 min
The Lonely PaletteSpecialEp. 0.3 - 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 Gaither give the curator talk to end all curator talks on art, artists, viewers, and why we do what we do.
Special thanks to PRX, the PRX Podcast Garage, and WGBH.
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2018-02-0736 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 25 - Mission: Mona LisaOur 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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/12/17/episode-25-mission-mona-lisa
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Tar and Spackle", "Welcome Home Sonny", "Caprese", "Tiny Putty", "Festering", "Inamorata", "Sunset at Sandy Isle", "Spins and Never Falls"
Nat King Cole, "Mona Lisa"
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2017-12-2247 minSophomore LitFrom the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. FrankweilerTime to appreciate the finer things in life, by sleeping on them. Tamar Avishai discusses E. L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
John McCoy
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2017-12-0148 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 24 - Meditations on Mark RothkoWhether you think Mark Rothko is the portal to spiritual transcendence or emotional-ambulance-chasing bunk, let's take the necessary time to explore his work without feeling like our souls are at stake.
See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/11/20/episode-24-meditations-on-mark-rothko
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "A Simple Blur", "Thematic", "Cases to Rest", "Plate Grayscale", "Drone Thistle," "Sage the Hunter"
Dar Williams, "Mark Rothko Song"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
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Our Year-End Listener Challenge is ON. Become a patr(e)on by December 15th and yo...
2017-11-2129 min
SoonishBack To The Futurists With Tamar AvishaiEpisode 2.04 is a special crossover show featuring Tamar Avishai's The Lonely Palette, one of the founding shows in our new podcast collective, Hub & Spoke. In this episode Tamar focuses on Italian Futurism, a pre-World War I art movement fueled by a heady mix of diesel and testosterone. The Futurists consciously aimed to use painting, sculpture, and photography to celebrate speed, power, industry, and all of the exhilarating ways technology was changing the world. What they couldn't represent—because it hadn't happened yet—was the ruin and destruction technology would bring to Europe as soon as the war began. After the...
2017-11-0839 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 23 - Umberto Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913)At the intersection of past and future sits a pack of hormonal dudes punching each other and making beautiful art.
See the image:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/10/30/episode-23-umberto-boccionis-unique-forms-of-continuity-in-space-1913
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Podington Bear, "Kaleidoscope"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Chase and We Follow", "The Telling", "Trelaga", "Thirteens"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
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2017-11-0125 min
The Lonely PaletteSpecialEp. 0.2 - Introducing Hub & Spoke (by way of Soonish)The Lonely Palette is thrilled to announce that we're a founding member of Hub & Spoke, a brand spanking new collective of Boston-centric, idea-driven podcasts. To kick things off, we're proud to present an episode of Soonish, the podcast about the future, hosted by veteran technology journalist Wade Roush. This episode, "Can Technology Save Museums?" not only asks some important questions about the future of art museums, but features me telling The Lonely Palette's origin story (spoiler: I say puke a lot).
Learn more about Soonish and Hub & Spoke:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/10/24/special-episode-10-introducing-hub-spoke-by-way-of-soonish
Music used:
The Blue Dot...
2017-10-2537 min
The Lonely PaletteEp. 22 - Jasper Johns' "Target" (1961)Ceci n'est pas un target, and other bewildering and profound pronouncements by conceptual neo-Dadaist (with abstract Pop Art sensibilities) Jasper Johns.
See the image:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/9/21/episode-22-jasper-johns-target-1961
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Soothe", "Helado", "Chapel Donder", "The Summit"
Jason Leonard, "Ritual Six"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
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2017-09-2723 min