The Lonely Palette

By Tamar Avishai

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 vis... more

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How many episodes does The Lonely Palette have?

The podcast currently has 155 episodes available.

The Lonely Palette episodes:

January 25, 2017 Ep. 14 - Paul Gauguin's "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" (1897-98)
The gospel according to Gauguin is basically an existential hodgepodge that you and I were never supposed to understand.

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Flagger", "Pacing", "Open Flames", "One Quiet Conversation"
Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo, "Point de vue"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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January 03, 2017 Ep. 13 - Edward Hopper's "Room in Brooklyn" (1932)
Welcome to Edward Hopper's specific, yet schematic, love letter to the alienation of the modern American city.

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Lacquer Groove", "In Passage", "Cats Eye", "Tranceless", "Simple Melody", "Flagger"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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21min
December 13, 2016 Ep. 12 - Jackson Pollock's "Number 10, 1949" (1949)
Dust off your verbs, it's time to make sense out of chaos.

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Music used:
Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch"
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Parade Shoes", "Inessential", "City Limits", "Lacquer Groove"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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21min
November 15, 2016 Ep. 11 - John Singer Sargent's "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" (1882)
The darlings, the crown jewels, the moneymakers. Just what the heck is it about these girls?!

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Brass Buttons", "Heliotrope", "Vittoro", "Filing Away"
Lobo Loco, "White Shapes Beauty"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”
Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch"

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22min
October 25, 2016 Ep. 10 - Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue" (1927)
Think abstraction is totally inaccessible? Pull up a chair.

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "The Provisions", "A Certain Lightness", "A Rush of Clear Water", "Brass Buttons"
Lee Rosevere, "Puzzle Pieces"
Tamar Avishai, "Grid (after Sol LeWitt's Drawing Series)"

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21min
October 04, 2016 Ep. 9 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Reclining Nude" (1909)
The German Expressionists get hot. Nazis get bothered.

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
David Szeszlay, "Night Surfing"
Michael Howard, "The Tallest Man in Idaho (Instrumental)"
Jason Leonard, "Ritual Twelve"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Stilt", "Manele", "The Provisions" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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21min
September 20, 2016 Ep. 8 - Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipses" (1996)
This big bully is about to give you a lesson in contrasts you won't soon forget. Featuring Dar Williams!

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Turning", "Downhill Racer", "Cloud Line"
Lee Rosevere, "Reflections"
Dar Williams and the WASTM Good Times House Choir, "The Water is Wide"

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19min
September 06, 2016 Ep. 7 - Claude Monet's "Rouen Cathedral" Series (1892-94)
After centuries in the shadows, it's light's turn to shine.

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "The Spinnet", "Lahaina", "Discovery Harbor", "Santre"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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19min
July 20, 2016 Ep. 6 - Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of a Woman" (1910)
You think your seven-year-old could paint this indecipherable abstract Cubist painting? Well, it's not abstract, it's totally understandable, and... he couldn't.

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Music used:
Paolo Pavan, “Blue Night Dance”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Balti", "The Rampart", "Steadfast", "Beast on the Soil"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”
Heftone Banjo Orchestra, "Peaceful Henry"

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16min
July 05, 2016 Ep. 5 - Andy Warhol's "Red Disaster" (1962)
Elbow-deep in trauma, Andy Warhol plays with repetition and bores us into action.
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Music used:
Chris Zabriskie, “Cylinder Four”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Ketsa, “Catching Feathers”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Drifting Spade”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”
Paolo Pavan, “Blue Night Dance”

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How many episodes does The Lonely Palette have?

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