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The Lonely Palette

Tamar Avishaiwww.thelonelypalette.com
Welcome to The Lonely Palette, the podcast that returns art history to the masses, one painting at a time. Each episode, host Tamar Avishai picks a painting du jour, interviews unsuspecting museum visitors in front of it, and then dives deeply into the object, the movement, the social context, and anything and everything else that will make it as neat to you as it is to her. For more information, visit thelonelypalette.com | Twitter @lonelypalette | Instagram @thelonelypalette.

Episodes

Ep. 54 - Grant Wood's "American Gothic" (1930)

See the images: bit.ly/2WuV2CQ Music 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...

Sep 30, 202131 minEp. 82

TLP Interview with Dr. Rachel Saunders, Curator, Harvard Art Museums

See the images discussed: bit.ly/3kQbAii Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, “One Little Triumph,” “Sage the Hunter” Tamar’s exhibition review in the New York Review of Books: bit.ly/36X64Cg The Lonely Palette episode on Painting Edo: bit.ly/3iEFl2Q The HAM page on Painting Edo bit.ly/3zrYBY7 Support the show! www.patreon.com/lonelypalette...

Jul 23, 202159 minEp. 80

Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 3: The Urban Sublime

Artists Explored: Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, Charles Sheeler, Martin Wong See the Images: bit.ly/34AE9Xw Music 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/3wyqg8Y Support the Show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette...

Jun 15, 202123 minEp. 79

Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic

See the images: www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…ost-pandemic Music 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...

Jun 08, 202132 minEp. 78

Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 2: The Figure

Artists Explored: Lalla Essaydi, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Sally Mann, Dawoud Bey See the Images: addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/Podcast.aspx Music 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/3uFM9Bj Support the Show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette...

Jun 01, 202122 minEp. 77

Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 1: Abstraction

Artists Explored: Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd See the Images: addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/Podcast.aspx Music 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/3eUQdsE The Lonely Palette on Jasper Johns: bit.ly/3hDFq82 Support the Show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette...

May 18, 202123 minEp. 76

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/3sJUXWu Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette...

Apr 01, 202131 minEp. 73

Ep. 51 - Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document" (1973-79)

See the images: bit.ly/3uaWHta Music 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

Feb 18, 202136 minEp. 71

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 and text in drawing. [15:15]: I, Leonardo, the terror of the blank canvas, and “prorogation”....

Dec 19, 202037 minEp. 69

Ep. 50 - Carrie Mae Weems' "Not Manet's Type" (1997)

See the images: bit.ly/3omDroO Music 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

Dec 04, 202034 minEp. 68

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 artists? [27:43]: Reflecting on our inflamed current moment, and whether things are indeed get...

Nov 13, 202047 minEp. 67

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/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,” “To...

Sep 10, 202036 minEp. 66

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/31gUSwW Music 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 & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, “Theme from Schindler’s List” Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelyp...

Aug 03, 202056 minEp. 65

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/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,...

May 04, 202032 minEp. 60

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/39qX739 Music used: Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jat Poure,” “Li F...

Mar 29, 202036 minEp. 58

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 wants you. See the images: bit.ly/33DsB4P Music used: Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley” The Blue Dot Sessions, “F...

Mar 22, 202029 minEp. 57

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/39QXvsJ Music used: Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley” The Blue Dot Sessions, “Cold and Hard,” “Georgia Overdrive...

Mar 15, 202028 minEp. 56

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: bit.ly/3axRwIY Music used: Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley” The Blue Dot Sessions, “Tiptoe Treadline,” “Gust...

Mar 08, 202025 minEp. 55

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.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…de-no-1-1962 Music used: Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley” The Blue Dot Se...

Mar 01, 202023 minEp. 54

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-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 ...

Feb 27, 202037 minEp. 52

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-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...

Dec 01, 201927 minEp. 51

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 Lydon is a local conversation with global attitude. "The Bauhaus in Your House," which originall...

Oct 09, 201951 minEp. 48

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 the visual, and, like, a little bit about The Bachelorette. Enjoy! 00:10: Introduction. 00:41: Laying...

Aug 09, 201933 min

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: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette Episode sponsors: www.thegreatcourses.com/lonely www.visualartspassage.com/pa...

Jul 19, 201938 minEp. 46

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” “Tailrunner,” “Entwined Oddity,” “Lupi,” “Thannoid,” “Camp Fermin” Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees" Su...

Jun 07, 201932 minEp. 45

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 reconnected in the Busch-Reisinger galleries in front of Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in a Tuxedo"...

Apr 05, 201923 minEp. 44

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 radioopensource.org, and listen to their show on the Bauhaus Centennial on April 11, 2019 at 9:00pm EDT on 90....

Mar 29, 201931 minEp. 43

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, “Django’s Tiger” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, “Vi...

Mar 15, 201931 minEp. 42

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? See the images: www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-restoration Music used: Django Reinhardt, “Dj...

Jan 31, 201940 minEp. 41
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