Ranked #1
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
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26mins
Ranked #2
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
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29mins
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Ranked #3
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
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30mins
Ranked #4
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
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31mins
Ranked #5
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
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31mins
Ranked #6
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
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11mins
Ranked #7
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
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29mins
Ranked #8
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
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29mins
Ranked #9
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
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34mins
Ranked #10
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
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37mins
Ranked #11
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
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22mins
Ranked #12
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
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47mins
Ranked #13
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
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15mins
Ranked #14
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
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28mins
Ranked #15
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
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25mins
Ranked #16
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
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12mins
Ranked #17
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
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15mins
Ranked #18
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
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23mins
Ranked #19
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
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27mins
Ranked #20
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
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21mins