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The Lonely Palette

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.

Ep.70 - Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" (1943)

38 mins; July 08, 2025

Ep. 69 - Yee Sookyung's "Translated Vase" (2011)

23 mins; April 04, 2025

TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer

66 hours 21 mins; March 05, 2025

Ep. 68 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (March 5th) #2" (1991)

31 mins; February 17, 2025

TLP Interview with Sebastian Smee, Art Critic, The Washington Post

60 hours 18 mins; February 07, 2025

Ep. 67 - Cy Twombly's "Second Voyage to Italy (Second Version), 1962"

26 mins; January 25, 2025

Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

3 mins; January 16, 2025

BonusEp. 18 - A TLP Announcement! And Introducing The Rabbis Go South

23 mins; November 01, 2024

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

60 hours 18 mins; March 07, 2024

BonusEp. 17 - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour

50 mins; February 14, 2024

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

45 mins; December 29, 2023

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

55 mins; October 13, 2023

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

7 mins; October 03, 2023

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

21 mins; September 12, 2023

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

35 mins; September 11, 2023

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

30 mins; August 04, 2023

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

32 mins; July 05, 2023

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

27 mins; June 07, 2023

BonusEp. 12 - The Lonely Palette presents Rumble Strip

16 mins; May 26, 2023

BonusEp. 11 - The Lonely Palette presents Out There

23 mins; May 19, 2023

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

39 mins; May 04, 2023

Re-ReleaseEp. 36 - Behold The Monkey

40 mins; January 13, 2023

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

39 mins; January 06, 2023

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

70 hours 26 mins; December 30, 2022

Ep. 61 - Under the Midnight Sun

29 mins; December 16, 2022

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

37 mins; December 09, 2022

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

73 hours 26 mins; October 07, 2022

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

10 mins; September 23, 2022

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

67 hours 59 mins; September 02, 2022

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

57 mins; August 26, 2022

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

34 mins; July 18, 2022

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

31 mins; June 03, 2022

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

27 mins; April 28, 2022

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

32 mins; March 31, 2022

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

28 mins; February 24, 2022

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

26 mins; February 04, 2022

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

37 mins; January 19, 2022

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

50 mins; December 22, 2021

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

28 mins; October 29, 2021

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

31 mins; September 30, 2021

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

55 mins; August 04, 2021

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

59 mins; July 23, 2021

LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.3: The Urban Sublime

23 mins; June 15, 2021

Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic

31 mins; June 08, 2021

LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.2: The Figure

21 mins; June 01, 2021

LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.1: Abstraction

22 mins; May 18, 2021

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

1 min; May 12, 2021

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

27 mins; April 22, 2021

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

31 mins; April 01, 2021

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

25 mins; March 08, 2021

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

36 mins; February 18, 2021

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

24 mins; January 28, 2021

BonusEp 0.4 - Tamar Avishai interviews Ralph Steadman

36 mins; December 18, 2020

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

34 mins; December 04, 2020

BonusEp 0.3 - Tamar Avishai interviews The Guerrilla Girls

46 mins; November 13, 2020

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

36 mins; September 10, 2020

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

55 mins; August 03, 2020

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

35 mins; June 19, 2020

TeaserEp 0.2 - The Raw Material Summer Mixtape (in partnership with SFMOMA)

4 mins; June 01, 2020

Re-ReleaseEp. 31 - Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Byrd Theater, Richmond, 1993" (1993)

29 mins; May 28, 2020

Re-ReleaseEp. 16 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (1888)

22 mins; May 21, 2020

Re-ReleaseEp. 9 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Reclining Nude" (1909)

21 mins; May 14, 2020

Re-ReleaseEp. 15 - El Anatsui's "Black River" (2009)

21 mins; May 07, 2020

Ep. 47 - George Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" (1884-86)

32 mins; May 04, 2020

Re-ReleaseEp. 39 - Rembrandt van Rijn's "Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh" (1632)

29 mins; April 30, 2020

Re-ReleaseEp. 40 - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)

36 mins; March 29, 2020

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

28 mins; March 22, 2020

Ep. 45 - Georgia O'Keeffe's "Deer's Skull with Pedernal" (1936)

28 mins; March 15, 2020

Ep. 44 - Louise Bourgeois' "Pillar" (1949-50)

24 mins; March 08, 2020

Ep. 43 - Carmen Herrera's "Blanco y Verde (no. 1)" (1962)

23 mins; March 01, 2020

TeaserEp 0.1: The Series "Women Take the Floor" (in partnership with the MFA Boston)

4 mins; February 28, 2020

Ep. 42 - Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (c. 1829-1832)

36 mins; February 26, 2020

Ep. 41 - Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait" (1434)

26 mins; November 29, 2019

HiatusEp 0.5 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Culture Hustlers

34 mins; October 30, 2019

HiatusEp 0.4 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Ministry of Ideas

33 mins; October 23, 2019

HiatusEp 0.3 - Hub & Spoke Presents: The Constant

29 mins; October 16, 2019

HiatusEp 0.2 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Open Source

50 mins; October 09, 2019

HiatusEp 0.1 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Iconography

61 hours 10 mins; October 02, 2019

BonusEp. 0.3 - Tamar Avishai interview with Artists of Camberville

32 mins; August 09, 2019

Ep. 40 - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)

37 mins; July 19, 2019

Ep. 39 - Rembrandt van Rijn's "Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh" (1632)

31 mins; June 07, 2019

BonusEp. 0.2 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dan Byers, Director of Harvard's Carpenter Center

22 mins; April 04, 2019

Ep. 38 - Wassily Kandinsky's "Untitled" (1922)

30 mins; March 28, 2019

Ep. 37 - Ansel Adams' "The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming" (1942)

31 mins; March 15, 2019

Ep. 36 - Behold the Monkey

40 mins; January 31, 2019

BonusEp. 0.1 - Tamar Avishai interviews artist Cecilia Vicuña

19 mins; December 14, 2018

Ep. 35 - Cecilia Vicuña's "Disappeared Quipu" (2018)

31 mins; December 14, 2018

Ep. 34 - Dance Dance Revolution

41 mins; November 14, 2018

Ep. 33 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "The Desired Moment" (c. 1770)

30 mins; September 13, 2018

Ep. 32 - René Magritte's "The Son of Man" (1964)

29 mins; August 28, 2018

Ep. 31 - Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Byrd Theater, Richmond, 1993" (1993)

31 mins; July 12, 2018

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

26 mins; May 30, 2018

Ep. 29 - Egon Schiele's "Nude Self-Portrait" (1910)

29 mins; April 26, 2018

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

28 mins; March 29, 2018

Ep. 27 - Roy Lichtenstein's "Ohhh... Alright..." (1964)

26 mins; March 07, 2018

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

38 mins; February 14, 2018

SpecialEp. 0.3 - Keepers of the Culture (Live Event at the PRX Podcast Garage)

36 mins; February 06, 2018

Ep. 25 - Mission: Mona Lisa

47 mins; December 22, 2017

Ep. 24 - Meditations on Mark Rothko

29 mins; November 21, 2017

Ep. 23 - Umberto Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913)

25 mins; October 31, 2017

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