The Lonely Palette by Tamar Avishai

What's The Lonely Palette about?

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.

What's The Lonely Palette about?

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The Lonely Palette episodes:

Ep. 66 - Bringing Monuments Home (from PRX's Monumental)

BonusEp. 17 - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour

BonusEp. 16: Tamar Avishai interviews Lucy R. Lippard, Art Writer

BonusEp. 15: Tamar Avishai interviews Prudence Peiffer, Author and Content Director, MoMA

BonusEp. 14: The Lonely Palette Reads Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word

BonusEp. 13: The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari on Sandro Botticelli

Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)

Ep. 64 - Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground)" (1989)

Ep. 63 - James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl" (1861-62)

Ep. 62 - Helen Frankenthaler's "Madame Butterfly" (2000)

BonusEp. 12 - The Lonely Palette presents Rumble Strip

BonusEp. 11 - The Lonely Palette presents Out There

BonusEp. 10 - The Lonely Palette Live at On Air Fest (and an update!)

Re-ReleaseEp. 36 - Behold The Monkey

Re-ReleaseEp. 26 - C.M. Coolidge's "Dogs Playing Poker" (1903)

BonusEp. 09 - Tamar Avishai interviews Avery Trufelman, Design and Fashion Podcaster

Ep. 61 - Under the Midnight Sun

Ep. 60 - Caravaggio's "The Crucifixion of St. Andrew" (1607)

BonusEp. 08 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dar Williams, Singer-Songwriter

Preview: "Death of an Artist: Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Split the Art World"

BonusEp. 07 - Tamar Avishai interviews Adam Gopnik, Critic, The New Yorker

BonusEp. 06 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dr. Charlotte Mullins, Art Critic and Broadcaster

Re-ReleaseEp. 49 - Claes Oldenburg's "Giant Toothpaste Tube" (1964)

Ep. 59 - Sarah Sze's "Fallen Sky" (2021)

Ep. 58 - Odili Donald Odita's "Cut" (2016)

Ep. 57 - Juno, A Colossal Roman Statue (late 1st c. BCE)

Re-ReleaseEp. 46 - Patty Chang's "Melons (At A Loss)" (1998)

Re-ReleaseEp. 30 - Donatello's "Madonna of the Clouds" (c. 1425-1435)

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

Ep. 56 - Memorials (Collaboration with Hi-Phi Nation)

Ep. 55 - Harriet Powers' "Pictorial Quilt" (1895-98)

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

Re-ReleaseEp. 48 - Anselm Kiefer's "Margarete" and "Sulamith" (1981)

BonusEp 0.5 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dr. Rachel Saunders, Harvard Art Museums

LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.3: The Urban Sublime

Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic

LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.2: The Figure

LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.1: Abstraction

TeaserEp 0.3 - Look With Your Ears (in partnership with the Addison Gallery of American Art)

Re-ReleaseEp. 37 - Ansel Adams' "The Tetons and Snake River" (1942)

Ep. 52 - Ólafur Elíasson's "Untitled (Spiral)" (2017)

Re-ReleaseEp. 28 - Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece" (1964)

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

Re-ReleaseEp. 20 - Henryk Ross's Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto (1940-44)

BonusEp 0.4 - Tamar Avishai interviews Ralph Steadman

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

BonusEp 0.3 - Tamar Avishai interviews The Guerrilla Girls

Ep. 49 - Claes Oldenburg's "Giant Toothpaste Tube" (1964)

Ep. 48 - Anselm Kiefer's "Margarete" and "Sulamith" (1981)

Re-ReleaseEp. - Keepers of the Culture: an Evening with Ekua Holmes and Dr. Barry Gaither

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