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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 vi... Read more

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

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:http:/... Read more

30 Nov 2019

26mins

Ranked #2

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Ep. 24 - Meditations on Mark Rothko

Ep. 24 - Meditations on Mark Rothko

Whether you think Mark Rothko is the portal to spiritual transcendence or emotional-ambulance-chasing bunk, let's take t... Read more

21 Nov 2017

29mins

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

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

The later work of Russian ex-pat turned German Expressionist turned indispensable Bauhaus faculty member Wassily Kandins... Read more

28 Mar 2019

30mins

Ranked #4

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

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... Read more

15 Mar 2019

31mins

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

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

It isn't 17th century Dutch art if we're not going so deep into Rembrandt's soul and so close to the meticulous details ... Read more

7 Jun 2019

31mins

Ranked #6

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Ep. 2 - Christian Boltanski's "Lumieres (blue square - Sylvie)" (2000)

Ep. 2 - Christian Boltanski's "Lumieres (blue square - Sylvie)" (2000)

Christian Boltanski tackles memory and death. We tackle Christian Boltanski.See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.... Read more

24 May 2016

11mins

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

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

Ever have a day when you just feel a little... blocked? Well, sure as God made little green apples, Surrealist René Mag... Read more

28 Aug 2018

29mins

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

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

Welcome to the cult of the punk: where the skin is flayed, the contortions are twisty, and the struggle is real.  So why... Read more

27 Apr 2018

29mins

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HiatusEp 0.5 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Culture Hustlers

HiatusEp 0.5 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Culture Hustlers

The Lonely Palette is on break until November 2019, so every Wednesday in October, a different Hub & Spoke producer ... Read more

30 Oct 2019

34mins

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

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

In which we go beneath the flowers, the unibrow, the broken body, and the shadow of her marriage, to reframe the fame of... Read more

19 Jul 2019

37mins

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

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

You've just had a manic break, cut off a piece of your ear, and gifted it to a prostitute. Who ya gonna call? Your get... Read more

29 Mar 2017

22mins

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Ep. 25 - Mission: Mona Lisa

Ep. 25 - Mission: Mona Lisa

Our lady of the hour, muse of Dan Brown, satisfier of bucket lists, those eyes, that smile, La Gioconda, El Hefe. Just ... Read more

22 Dec 2017

47mins

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Ep. 6 - Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of a Woman" (1910)

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 t... Read more

20 Jul 2016

15mins

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

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 f... Read more

15 Mar 2020

28mins

Ranked #15

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Ep. 21 - Mary Cassatt's "In the Loge" (1878)

Ep. 21 - Mary Cassatt's "In the Loge" (1878)

So. It appears that art history has a woman problem.See the image:http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/9/5/epi... Read more

5 Sep 2017

25mins

Ranked #16

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Ep. 4 - Edgar Degas' "Duchessa di Montejasi with Her Daughters, Elena and Camilla" (c. 1876)

Ep. 4 - Edgar Degas' "Duchessa di Montejasi with Her Daughters, Elena and Camilla" (c. 1876)

Hey! You there! Don't walk by this seemingly-boring painting. You might miss the 19th century.See the image: http://w... Read more

21 Jun 2016

12mins

Ranked #17

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Ep. 3 - John Singleton Copley's "Portrait of Samuel Adams" (1772)

Ep. 3 - John Singleton Copley's "Portrait of Samuel Adams" (1772)

While John Singleton Copley is busying himself with past and present art historical styles, Samuel Adams is getting all ... Read more

7 Jun 2016

15mins

Ranked #18

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Ep. 18 - JMW Turner's "The Slave Ship" (1840)

Ep. 18 - JMW Turner's "The Slave Ship" (1840)

Because it's hard to look directly into the sun. Or yourself.See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/20... Read more

23 May 2017

23mins

Ranked #19

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Ep. 17 - Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (1917)

Ep. 17 - Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (1917)

On the occasion of its hundredth birthday, we dive into the art world's greatest joke (splash!).See the images:http://ww... Read more

18 Apr 2017

27mins

Ranked #20

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Ep. 12 - Jackson Pollock's "Number 10, 1949" (1949)

Ep. 12 - Jackson Pollock's "Number 10, 1949" (1949)

Dust off your verbs, it's time to make sense out of chaos.See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/1... Read more

13 Dec 2016

21mins

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