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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.

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01:22:03

TLP Interview with The Cheeky Scholar

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/09/26

Earlier this year, I had a really, really great conversation with Dr. Lara Ayad, host of the podcast The Cheeky Scholar - and I'm proud to share it today. We cast our net really wide, talking at first about the role of artists in society, my favorite museums, but then we got into it. We got into it. Because Lara and I are both, in the parlance of the moment, free speech bros. And if you’re going to be a good artist, or a good art critic, you can’t be afraid of censorship, and you sure as hell can’t

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00:26:10

Bonus - Why Public Radio Matters: A Conversation...

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/09/05

It's September, and time to get back to work. That means defending public radio against federal defunding, exploring its core values, and taking an honest look at how we got here. I'm proud to share this conversation between my Hub & Spoke colleague Erica Heilman, host of the exquisite and unflinching Rumble Strip, and her buddy Jay Allison, founder of Transom, producer of The Moth Radio Hour, and generally one of the most stalwart producers in the industry, about why public radio matters.Episode

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00:20:56

In Plain Sight - Ep. 3: "Go Deeper"

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/08/07

"You don't go look at a Rothko; you go inside a Rothko." - Claire, visitor, National Gallery of ArtModern art. Two little words that strike so much fear in the heart of the average museum goer. When you're used to straightforward, legible paintings and sculptures, Modernism can be pretty destabilizing. Pretty weird. Canvases are now spattered with paint, or lined with grids, or barely containing the shapes that seem to want to float away. A car tire is cut apart and reassembled. A giant mobile

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00:25:22

In Plain Sight - Ep. 2: "Listen Closer"

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/07/31

"Questions and the search for answers, and the appreciation of beauty, and then wanting to share it with other people, to go look at it closely together. Then you realize you've got something that can feed you for the rest of your life as a career." - Emily Pegues, curator, National Gallery of Art.Museum curators are an intimidating species. Those experts with their degrees. How could they possibly remember what it was like to walk into a museum for the first time and feel overwhelmed by the sheer

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00:25:49

In Plain Sight - Ep. 1: "Look Longer"

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/07/24

"There are different levels of looking. And it's exciting to bring people to the different levels." - Estelle Quain, National Gallery of Art docentHow do YOU feel when you walk into an art museum? Is it familiar? Intimidating? Do you have a guard trying to shush you, or an overly-enthusiastic friend trying to tell you what to like? Are you joyful? Are you sad? Are you… bored?You’re not alone. Whether it’s your first time in an art museum or your 10,000th, everyone’s going to respond differently

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00:38:25

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

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/07/04

“I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” - Norman RockwellWhether arguing for soft versus hard taco shells or the Neo-Nazi right to march in Skokie, freedom of speech is a fundamental right we all enjoy as Americans. But it turns out that telling people that is pretty complicated, actually. Thank goodness we have Norman Rockwell, virtuosic photorealistic painter and America's crown prince of nostalgia, to help us understand our fundamental freedoms from

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00:47:38

TLP Interview with Judith Wechsler, Art Historian and...

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/05/12

"Walter, let's go for a walk." - Judith Wechsler, in the arcades of Paris.Professor Judith Wechsler is an art historian, filmmaker, writer, researcher, Francophile, and leading expert on Paul Cezanne and Honoré Daumier. She’s the daughter of a major religious philosopher. Her resume reads like a who’s who of 20th century art historians – Meyer Shapiro, Linda Nochlin, Leo Steinberg, Gershom Sholem. Her films tell the story of 20th century Europe, image by image.She was also my grad school advisor

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00:23:40

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

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/04/04

“It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee SookyungShattered porcelain is impossible to repair. As impossible as fully, and accurately, reconstructing the past. But who needs that pressure? What if, instead of tossing those shards in the dustbin of history, we acknowledged that the thing will never be what it once was? Maybe then we appreciate the beauty, and the human resilience, of what new things it could be, in the

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01:06:21

TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/03/07

"It's the close focus that draws me into a sound. And then it sort of spreads out and spreads through my body. And I let that happen, and I'm listening in a different way." - Annea LockwoodThe artist and composer Annea Lockwood is not just any musician. She is an artist of sound. She is a composer of art. Her music is performance art, and her art is always, always audio-rich and musical. She sends her microphones into the elements – fire, here, and rivers, in a recent series called Sound Maps, where

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00:31:14

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

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/02/21

"The only thing permanent is change." - Felix Gonzalez-TorresThere is no way around it. The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay, Cuban-American artist who responded to - and died during - the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, is sad. His work is a memorial, both to a lost generation and to his own partner, Ross. Yet it is through these seemingly banal, industrial, or every day materials, and the powerful metaphor that they represent, that we can best get to the root of what loss can mean. And,

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01:00:18

TLP Interview with Sebastian Smee, Art Critic, The...

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/02/07

“In the end, what interests me is the way art connects with life. Because otherwise, I don’t quite understand what it’s for.” - Sebastian SmeeSebastian Smee has been the art critic for the Washington Post since 2018, but has written extensively about art for every publication you can think of, from here to his native Australia, and winning a Pulitzer prize for criticism along the way. Both his prose and his love of the work leaps off the page and into your lap, offering a guiding hand past the

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00:26:28

Ep. 67 - Cy Twombly's "Second Voyage to Italy (Second...

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/01/27

"My line does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." - Cy TwomblyCritics have described the work of consummate scribbler Cy Twombly as at once "barely there" and overly academic, but what about us art civilians? What is it about these half-baked scraps, scratch, and scrawl that speaks to our own creative impulses, our own inner children dying to grab the crayon and crush the tip in an ecstatic series of fat, juicy loopdeloops?See the images.Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei

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00:03:06

Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

The Lonely Palette ·

2025/01/16

Mark your calendars! The new season of The Lonely Palette drops Thursday, January 23rd! This season, we've got a stellar line-up: Cy Twombly, Lawren Harris, Käthe Kollwitz, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, to name just a few. We've got interviews with the Washington Post's Sebastian Smee, the artist and composer Annea Lockwood, and more. We've got a whole National Gallery residency! So listen and subscribe, rate and review, and fire up your earbuds for another season of looking with your ears.If you

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00:23:09

BonusEp. 18 - A TLP Announcement! And Introducing The...

The Lonely Palette ·

2024/11/01

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: bit.ly/3Cd05fB- Explore our Hub & Spoke Expo showcase,

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01:00:18

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

The Lonely Palette ·

2024/03/07

In this special episode of The Lonely Palette, I’m sharing the episode I made for the PRX limited-run podcast series "Monumental," which interrogates the state of monuments across the greater U.S. and what their future says about where we are now and where we’re going.This was the concluding episode, exploring how some monuments are larger than life, dwarfing us, making us feel small relative to the grandness of history. But what if a monument was human-scaled? What if it made us aware of our bodies

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00:50:22

BonusEp. 17 - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour

The Lonely Palette ·

2024/02/14

The 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

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00:45:11

BonusEp. 16: Tamar Avishai interviews Lucy R....

The Lonely Palette ·

2023/12/29

Music Used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lacquer Groove,” “Hardwood Lullaby”Episode Webpage:https://www.thelonelypalette.com/interview/2023/12/20/lucy-lippard-art-writer

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00:55:13

BonusEp. 15: Tamar Avishai interviews Prudence...

The Lonely Palette ·

2023/10/13

See the images:bit.ly/3rOM7vEMusic used:The Blue Dot Session, “Skyforager”Rufus Wainwright, “11:11”Support the show:www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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00:07:02

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

The Lonely Palette ·

2023/10/03

www.patreon.com/lonelypaletteMusic used:Glenn Miller, “Tuxedo Junction”The Blue Dot Sessions, "No Smoking," "Mercurial Vision"Our website:www.thelonelypalette.com

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00:21:21

BonusEp. 13: The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari...

The Lonely Palette ·

2023/09/14

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. 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

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