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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.

Latest Episodes:

TLP Interview with Dr. Rachel Saunders, Curator, Harvard Art Museums Jul 23, 2021

Show notes

See the images discussed:
bit.ly/3kQbAii

Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “One Little Triumph,” “Sage the Hunter”

Tamar’s exhibition review in the New York Review of Books:
bit.ly/36X64Cg

The Lonely Palette episode on Painting Edo:
bit.ly/3iEFl2Q

The HAM page on Painting Edo
bit.ly/3zrYBY7

Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 3: The Urban Sublime Jun 15, 2021

Show notes

Artists Explored:
Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, Charles Sheeler, Martin Wong

See the Images:
bit.ly/34AE9Xw

Music Used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Towboat Theme,” “Cat’s Eye,” “PlainGrey,” “Dorica Theme,” “Tranceless”

Further Listening:
The Lonely Palette on Edward Hopper: bit.ly/3wyqg8Y

Support the Show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic Jun 08, 2021

Show notes

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…ost-pandemic

Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Noe Noe,” “A Certain Lightness,” “Algea Trio,” “Kilkerrin,” “Gullwing Sailor,” “Two Dollar Token,” “Silent Flock”
Billie Holiday, “Blue Moon”

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 2: The Figure Jun 01, 2021

Show notes

Artists Explored:
Lalla Essaydi, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Sally Mann, Dawoud Bey

See the Images:
addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/Podcast.aspx

Music Used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Dirty Wallpaper,” “Polycoat,” “Pastel de Nata,” “Turning to You,” “The Consulate”

Further Listening:
The Lonely Palette on Mary Cassatt: bit.ly/3uFM9Bj

Support the Show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 1: Abstraction May 18, 2021

Show notes

Artists Explored:
Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd

See the Images:
addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/Podcast.aspx

Music Used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Pinky,” “Flattered,” “A Little Powder,” “Arizona Moon,” “Daymaze,” “The Summit,”
Jason Leonard, “Ritual Six”

Further Listening:
The Lonely Palette on Jackson Pollock: bit.ly/3eUQdsE
The Lonely Palette on Jasper Johns: bit.ly/3hDFq82

Support the Show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Trailer - Look With Your Ears (in partnership with the Addison Gallery of American Art) May 12, 2021

Show notes

For more information on the exhibition, visit:
addison.andover.edu/Exhibitions/90/…es/default.aspx.

Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Waterbourne"

Ep. 52 - Ólafur Elíasson's "Untitled (Spiral)" (2017) Apr 01, 2021

Show notes

Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Daymaze,” “Plate Glass,” “Discovery Harbor,” “Wahre,” “Checkered Blue,” “Quarry Clouds,” “Enter the Room”

See the images:
bit.ly/3sJUXWu

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Ep. 51 - Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document" (1973-79) Feb 18, 2021

Show notes

See the images:
bit.ly/3uaWHta

Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “La Inglesa,” “Eggs and Powder,” “Paper Feather,” “Arizona Moon,” ”Lowball,” “Palladian,” “Simple Vale”

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

TLP Interview with Ralph Steadman, Artist & Illustrator Dec 19, 2020

Show notes

[2:18]: Love of Picasso and Duchamp.
[3:11]: Where do you start with caricature, the body or the soul?
[5:40]: Drawing with a pen – “no such thing as a mistake.”
[7:09]: The difference between illustration and “fine art”.
[9:55]: Use of the geometric in Steadman’s work, ink spatter, a conversation with the paper.
[13:10]: Coming to the U.S. in 1970, David Hockney “Paranoids”.
[14:30]: Use of photographs and text in drawing.
[15:15]: I, Leonardo, the terror of the blank canvas, and “prorogation”.
[17:53]: Style, “exposing depravity” and being purified by drawing it.
[22:33]: Early career before collaborating with Hunter S. Thompson, alchemy, gonzo.
[29:08]: Favorite faces to draw.
[30:48]: 2020, the pandemic, and finding the birdsong in doom.

Interview Webpage:
bit.ly/38erSJX

Music Used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Crumbtown"

Support the Show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Ep. 50 - Carrie Mae Weems' "Not Manet's Type" (1997) Dec 04, 2020

Show notes

See the images:
bit.ly/3omDroO

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jumbel,” “Turning to You,” “Pastel de Nata,” “Junca,” “Min,” “Basketliner”

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette