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The Lonely Palette is a arts podcast hosted by Tamar Avishai. It has 125 episodes, with the latest published July 2025.

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.

arts ·en ·125 episodes

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

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

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TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer

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

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

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

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Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

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

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

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BonusEp. 17 - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BonusEp. 12 - The Lonely Palette presents Rumble Strip

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BonusEp. 11 - The Lonely Palette presents Out There

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

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Re-ReleaseEp. 36 - Behold The Monkey

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

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

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Ep. 61 - Under the Midnight Sun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.3: The Urban Sublime

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Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic

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LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.2: The Figure

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LookWithYourEarsEp. 0.1: Abstraction

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

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

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

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

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