107 episodes

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.

The Lonely Palette Tamar Avishai

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    • 4.7 • 60 Ratings

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.

    BonusEp: 12 - The Lonely Palette presents Rumble Strip

    BonusEp: 12 - The Lonely Palette presents Rumble Strip

    The new season of The Lonely Palette is achingly close to starting up on Wednesday, June 7, but in the meantime, this week and next we're giving our feed over to some fellow Hub & Spoke shows that might pique your eardrums.

    Hub & Spoke, as you know, is our mighty audio collective of proudly independent podcasts. We aim to expand minds, viewpoints, knowledge, understanding. We have zero corporate interests or expectations, which means we are offbeat, unexpected, formidable, and really poor, so please take a listen to our shows and, if you like what we do, join our mailing list and consider supporting the collective: www.hubspokeaudio.org

    Link to our live event in at the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock, VT on Thursday, June 15: https://normanwilliams.org/events/podcasts-a-listening-event/

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    Today's episode: "The Museum of Everyday Life" by Rumble Strip

    The mission of The Museum of Everyday Life is "a heroic, slow-motion cataloguing of the quotidian–a detailed, theatrical expression of gratitude and love for the miniscule and unglamorous experience of daily life in all its forms." The museum's home is in a barn on Route 16 in the Northeast Kingdom. It is Erica Heilman's favorite museum. This is a show featuring the museum's creator, Clare Dolan.

    This show is co-produced by Erica Heilman and Mark Davis. Episode webpage: https://bit.ly/3oz1CGh

    Support The Lonely Palette:
    www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

    • 16 min
    BonusEp: 11 - The Lonely Palette presents Out There

    BonusEp: 11 - The Lonely Palette presents Out There

    The new season of The Lonely Palette is achingly close to starting up on Wednesday, June 7, but in the meantime, this week and next we're giving our feed over to some fellow Hub & Spoke shows that might pique your eardrums.

    Hub & Spoke, as you know, is our mighty audio collective of proudly independent podcasts. We aim to expand minds, viewpoints, knowledge, understanding. We have zero corporate interests or expectations, which means we are offbeat, unexpected, formidable, and really poor, so please take a listen to our shows and, if you like what we do, join our mailing list and consider supporting the collective: www.hubspokeaudio.org

    Link to our live event in at the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock, VT on Thursday, June 15: https://normanwilliams.org/events/podcasts-a-listening-event/

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    Today's episode: "Rekindling Hope" by Out There

    Carolyn McDonald was struggling — hard. The depression had gotten so bad that she couldn’t see a way forward. Then, one day, she went to the beach.

    Story and sound design by Willow Belden. Script editing by Corinne Ruff. Special thanks to Lori Mortimer for sound-design feedback. Music includes works from StoryBlocks and Blue Dot Sessions. Episode webpage: https://www.outtherepodcast.com/episodes/rekindlinghope

    Support The Lonely Palette:
    www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

    • 23 min
    BonusEp. 10: The Lonely Palette Live at On Air Fest (and an update!)

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

    Happy 7th birthday, The Lonely Palette! We're ringing in our itch with an quick update on next season, which starts in June, and a recording of our live show at On Air Fest, which was held in Brooklyn this past February.

    Please enjoy this revamped and refreshed episode of Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document," smash that subscribe button, and we'll see you next month.

    See the episode images:
    https://bit.ly/411KA0F

    Support the show:
    www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

    • 39 min
    Re-ReleaseEp. 36 - Behold The Monkey

    Re-ReleaseEp. 36 - Behold The Monkey

    We're in THE HOME STRETCH of our Patreon Listener Challenge! This is indeed the time to pull up your socks and start supporting the show, all to the dulcet tones of a re-release of our second and most lauded Patreon listener-supported episode from 2019 on the Ecce Homo restoration fiasco, wherein a well-intentioned, though, uh, untrained parishioner in a small Spanish town decided to take it upon herself restore a crumbling fresco and inadvertently birthed the meme of our young century.

    And if you're so moved, please consider making us happy little trees by becoming a Patreon patron at any level, and we'll do you one better with an episode on your favorite soothing soft-voiced paint-dabby PBS mainstay and mine, Bob Ross.

    See the images:
    http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/1/25/episode-36-behold-the-monkey-the-ecce-homo-restoration

    Music used:
    The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
    The Blue Dot Sessions, “Sylvestor”, “Mute Steps”, “Mr. Graves”, “Lobo Lobo”, “Lumber Down”, “Cloudy Cider”
    Tracie Potochnik, “Cecilia and the Saints”

    Support the show!
    www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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

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

    Our Patreon Listener Challenge is ongoing! And if you're on the fence about supporting the show, why not sit back with a re-release of our first-ever Patreon listener-supported episode from 2018 on C.M. Coolidge's "Dogs Playing Poker," where we dive into the trials and tribulations of kitsch, the battle between the Sams and Dianes of the world, and what it means to appreciate art at a frequency that we all can hear.

    And if you're so moved, please consider making us happy little trees by becoming a Patreon patron at any level, and we'll do you one better with an episode on your favorite soothing soft-voiced paint-dabby PBS mainstay and mine, Bob Ross.

    See the images:
    www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…g-poker-1903

    Music used:
    The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
    The Blue Dot Sessions, "Rose Ornamental," "Flattered," "Arizona Moon," "Laser Focus," "Alchemical," "Two in the Back," "Maisie Dreamer," "Gullwing Sailor," "Maldoc"
    Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

    Support the show!
    www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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

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

    A number of years ago, my Twitter pinged. Then it pinged again. All of a sudden, a whole host of people were following the show, and when I giddily found the source, it was the soulful and stylish Avery Trufelman, longtime 99% Invisible producer, currently of Articles of Interest, and fashionista tastemaker, who had pronounced The Lonely Palette her favorite art history podcast. Bestill my heart! It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, a kinship between co-founders of a mutual admiration society where the stories of stuff - art, objects, design, things, everything they say you can’t put on the radio - reigned supreme.

    Avery and I popped into our respective closets to chat about writing, audio, art, fashion, the trappings of podcast success, storytelling in a heated political climate, trusting your voice, that infamous cerulean blue scene in The Devil Wears Prada, ranking the heroes of epic poetry, and much more.

    Episode webpage:
    https://bit.ly/3jtcOBl

    Music used:
    The Blue Dot Sessions, “Swapping Tubes”
    The Kinks, “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”

    Support our year-end fundraiser!
    bit.ly/3An5jSd

    • 1 hr 10 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
60 Ratings

60 Ratings

soookay ,

Great

Nice insightful podcast - looking at individual artists and paintings.

Rob McMinn ,

I know a lot about art but I don’t know what I like

Excellent podcast, beautifully produced.

olipackman ,

Perfect Art Podcast

Such an informative, interesting and well made podcast. I absolutely love the episodes I’ve listened to and I’m already worried for the day I’ll have finished them all. Exactly what I was looking for in an art history podcast and it’s really made me look at art in a new light.

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