The Lonely Palette

[2:29]: Introductions.
[3:41] Why choose these artists as your pseudonyms?
[5:37]: The origin story of the Guerrilla Girls (and their font!).
[8:17]: How has the group changed and evolved, both internally and in terms of its mission? Has progress been made?
[15:49]: The joys and pitfalls of all-women shows. Is “woman artist” a problematic phrase?
[23:18]: Is there something that innately connects women artists?
[27:43]: Reflecting on our inflamed current moment, and whether things are indeed getting better.
[34:33]: How do we get people excited about artists they’re not familiar with, and who fall outside the established canon?
[38:16]: How to reach out to people who disagree with you.
[42:47]: How the Guerrilla Girls changed the rules for artists who came after them.

Follow the Guerrilla Girls:
www.guerrillagirls.com

Interview webpage:
bit.ly/3lGETBi

Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Pinky"

Somewhere between the life of the mind and the boots on the ground sits Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who wants us to see not only that both of those worlds are one and the same, but that there's value, and even beauty, to our stuff, and that maybe we can finally let ourselves admit it.

See the images:
bit.ly/3hcHjVq

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Cradle Rock,” “Sylvestor,” “A Little Powder,” “Our Only Lark,” “Town Market,” “Contrarian,” “The Rampart”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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This episode was produced with support from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Learn more at www.sfmoma.com.

See the images:
bit.ly/31gUSwW

Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Bus at Dawn,” “Silky,” Drone Pine,” “Tiny Bottles,” “Inamorata,” “Tapoco,” “The Summit,” “Cirrus,” “Derailed,” “Insatiable Toad,” “Dolly and Pad,” “A Pleasant Strike”

John Williams, performed by Itzhak Perlman & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, “Theme from Schindler’s List”

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Grab a parasol, put your monkey on a leash, and come spend Sunday in the Park with George, exploring how a canvas this monumental and as frozen as Dippin' Dots can help us better understand the world in his day, in Cameron Frye's, and in our own.

See the images:

https://bit.ly/2L0qPCg

Music used:

Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"

The Blue Dot Sessions, “Feisty and Tacky,” “Stack Me Up,” “Base Camp,” “Thannoid,” “PolyCoat,” “Slow Rollout”

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: we go beneath the flowers, the unibrow, the broken body, and the shadow of her marriage, to reframe the fame of Frida Kahlo: the Cult Icon of Humanness.

See the images:
bit.ly/39qX739

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jat Poure,” “Li Fonte,” “Clouds at the Gap,” “Master,” “When the Guests Have Left,” “Curiously and Curiously,” “Thread Ceylon,” “Gondola Blue”
Tinpan Orange, “Song for Frida Kahlo”

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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: you're rooted in place, unable to look away, and questioning everything you thought you know about femininity, self-nourishment, and a woman's right to her own body. Basically, Patty Chang's got you right where she wants you.

See the images:
bit.ly/33DsB4P

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Flatlands 3rd,” “Louver,” “Sino de Cobre,” “Dorica Theme,” “The Dustbin,” “We Shall Know Speed”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: there's no better way to combat a world holding its breath than with a deep lungful of fresh Southwestern air, care of America's most misattributed painter of vagina flowers, Georgia O'Keeffe.

See the images:
bit.ly/39QXvsJ

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Cold and Hard,” “Georgia Overdrive,” “Towboat Theme,” “Noe Noe,” “Raskt Landsby,” “Watercool Quiet,” “Cottonwoods”
The Nields, “Georgia O”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:
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The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: you’ve never noticed the carnality of the body you live in, and the rawness of the emotions that live inside that body, until you find yourself spun into French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois’s web.

See the images:
bit.ly/3axRwIY

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”

The Blue Dot Sessions, “Tiptoe Treadline,” “Gusty Hollow,” “Stately Shadows",” “Jog to the Water,” “Pinky”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Women Take the Floor."

This week: let's join 104-year-old Cuban-American Hard Edge painter Carmen Herrera in celebrating the straight line, not just the shortest distance between two points, but the most infinitely beautiful as well.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…de-no-1-1962

Music used:
Lobo Lobo, “Old Ralley”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Throughput,” “Scallat,” “Rally,” “Where It All Happened,” “The Consulate”

Exhibition site:
www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

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Sure, you've seen it a million times in a million memes, but when was the last time you actually stopped to contemplate the incredible power of this Japanese ukiyo-e print? Or for that matter, the incredible power of a wave itself?

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…awa-18301831

Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Falaal,” “Dirty Wallpaper,” “Ghost Byzantine,” “Moon Bicycle Theme,” “Eleven,” “Clouds at the Gap”
Charles Trenet, “La Mer”

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Whoever said the devil was in the details clearly had a thing for Northern Renaissance portraiture.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…ortrait-1434

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Our Son the Potter,” “Bundt,” “Pacing,” “Secret Pocketbook,” “Oriel,” “Floretin Interlude”
Poddington Bear, “Clay”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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The Lonely Palette is on break until November 2019, so every Wednesday in October, a different Hub & Spoke producer will take the host's chair to present an episode of their show that Tamar is especially fond of. Enjoy this month's podcast petri dish of art, culture, history, and society, and subscribe to any and all Hub & Spoke shows at www.hubspokeaudio.org.

This week:
Open Source with Christopher Lydon is a local conversation with global attitude.  "The Bauhaus in Your House," which originally aired on 90.9 WBUR in April 2019, is an exploration of art, architecture, and design with Tamar Avishai, Peter Chermayeff, Ann Beha, and Sebastian Smee. The Bauhaus was the art school in Germany that created the look of the twentieth century. We just live in it: loving its white-box affordability, or hating its stripped, blank, glass-and-steel uniformity, the world around. It’s the IKEA look in the twenty-first century, the look of Chicago skyscrapers and now Chinese housing towers, the look of American kitchens and probably the typeface on your emails. It was the less-is-more school that made ornament very nearly a crime. It stood, and stands, for a few big ideas still hotly contested.

Listen to Open Source at www.radioopensource.org, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Next week:
The Constant and Michelangelo

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On July 29, 2019 (the day after the birth of my son!), host and producer Danielle Monroe posted this interview we had recorded the week before for her podcast "Artists of Camberville." This was one of best conversations I've ever had about the origins of "The Lonely Palette" and the trials and tribulations of art-viewing, meaning-making, script-writing, audio podcasting about the visual, and, like, a little bit about The Bachelorette. Enjoy!

00:10: Introduction.
00:41: Laying the groundwork for starting "The Lonely Palette".
4:18: Clip from "Episode 24: Meditations on Mark Rothko".
6:12: Permission to slow down in front of a work of art. What is the best way to be present in an art museum? Both amateurs and experts have a hard time with this.
9:12: Is allowing for any reaction to an artwork “uneducated”? Exploring songwriting and meaning-making with a little help from Dar Williams and Mark Rothko.
14:30: As a podcaster, the difference between thinking like a radio producer and thinking like an art historian.
18:51: The desired takeaway from "The Lonely Palette"? Art history makes for a damn good story. Not scary stuff, just human stuff.
21:08: Can you do a museum wrong? Or maybe just…unpleasantly?
22:26: The weekend course that launched a podcast that people actually want to be on!
24:39: What would I do differently if I had to do it all again? How the depth of the episode scripts has evolved.
27:57: The Hub & Spoke garage story: attempting success due to the appearance of success.
31:44: Wrapping up, and fortunately (?) not going into labor on mic.

Original episode post:
https://daniellehmonroe.com/ep7/

Listen to "Artists of Camberville" wherever you get your podcasts, and please do leave a rating and a review!

Support "The Lonely Palette" and keep the kiddo in fresh diapers:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-dos-mujeres

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jat Poure,” “Li Fonte,” “Clouds at the Gap,” “Master,” “When the Guests Have Left,” “Curiously and Curiously,” “Thread Ceylon,” “Gondola Blue”
Tinpan Orange, “Song for Frida Kahlo”

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Episode sponsors:
www.thegreatcourses.com/lonely
www.visualartspassage.com/palette

It isn't 17th century Dutch art if we're not going so deeply into Rembrandt's soul and so close to the meticulous details of his virtuosic portraiture that we make the guards nervous.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…enburgh-1632

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lovers Hollow” “Tailrunner,” “Entwined Oddity,” “Lupi,” “Thannoid,” “Camp Fermin”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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www.thegreatcourses.com/lonely
www.visualartspassage.com

Tamar met Dan when she was a worshipful high school freshman and he was (to her) an übercool junior who was not only the arts editor of Thoughtprints, the school's art/lit mag, but also spent his free time in the fine art studio, bending the charcoal like Beckmann. Now he's the Director of the Carpenter Center of Visual Arts at Harvard University, she's an art history podcaster, and they reconnected in the Busch-Reisinger galleries in front of Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in a Tuxedo" from 1927 to talk about self-portraiture, self-evolution, and the limitations of peaking in high school.

[00:17] - Describing the painting.
[02:35] - What drew Dan to the painting as a teenager.
[06:16] - The ephemera of the cigarette.
[08:17] - Self-portraits in high school.
[09:25] - Drawing in thick, expressive lines.
[11:35] - The self-portrait that doesn't need our validation.
[15:19] - Beckmann isn’t Egon Schiele
[18:58] - Dan's evolving relationship with this painting.
[21:58] - Thoughtprints!

Full transcript:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/dan-byers-interview

Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Greyleaf Willow"

The later work of Russian ex-pat turned German Expressionist turned indispensable Bauhaus faculty member Wassily Kandinsky is a lot like the Bauhaus itself: a disparate collection of pieces parts that ends up assembling itself into a transparent, efficient, powerfully cohesive, form-follows-function whole.

This episode was a collaboration with WBUR's Radio Open Source: check them out at radioopensource.org, and listen to their show on the Bauhaus Centennial on April 11, 2019 at 9:00pm EDT on 90.9 WBUR Boston.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…ntitled-1922

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
Thelonious Monk, “Misterioso”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Highway 94”, “Boston Landing”, “Junca”, “Unfolding Plot”, “Micro”, “Betty Dear”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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Episode sponsor:
www.shedunnitshow.com

Let's explore America the Beautiful, the Complicated, and the Contradictory, where a purple mountain has no sense of its own majesty, through the lens of the quintessential dorm room poster photographer Ansel Adams.

See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/3/8/episode-37-ansel-adams-the-tetons-and-snake-river-grand-teton-national-park-wyoming-1942

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Vibrant Canopy”, “Bridgewalker”, “The Yards”, “Silver Lanyard”, “Velvet Ladder”
Tamar Avishai, “Michigan”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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Sponsors:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely
www.visualartspassage.com

The fruits of the Second Annual Year-End Patreon Listener Challenge has us staring directly into the cold dead eyes of the beast! How could this restoration of a forgotten 19th century Spanish fresco have gotten so grotesquely botched, and what does it tell us about the challenges of art restoration, religious iconography, and iconoclasm? And more importantly, Jesus, why do you look like a shark?

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-restoration

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
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”

Episode sponsor:
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On October 10, 2018, both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Cecilia Vicuña herself were generous enough to give me the opportunity to take a few moments away from the installation of "Disappeared Quipu" and interview Vicuña. We talked about bridging the masculinity of Land Art and the femininity of Fiber Art, the origins of Vicuña's life as an artist, and how her own awareness has evolved throughout her career.

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Thick woolen knots, suspended from the ceiling, alive with projections and immersed in sound. You might not realize that Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña has woven together your awareness of your own awareness, but maybe you just needed some help translating it.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…d-quipu-2018

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Face of the Thrush”, “We Build With Rubber Bands”, “Vdet”, “Between Stones”, “Cover Letter”, “Gentle Son”

Support the show!
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Episode sponsor:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely

We're trying a little something different today: what happens when Disney scares the pants off you as a kid, and then, in mining the roots of your existential dread, you realize that Henri Matisse and Igor Stravinsky both had their pants scared off too, and that explains a whole heck of a lot about early 20th century modernism? Let's find out together.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…e-revolution

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Igor Stravinsky, “The Rite of Spring”
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Monder”, “House of Grendel”, “Thread Caramb”, Emmit Sprak”, “Lubber”, Ervira”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

Be a part of history! The 2nd Annual Year-End Patreon Listener Challenge is officially ON:
www.thelonelypalette.com/2018listenerchallenge

Sponsors:
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Powder those wigs and ungird those loins: today we're diving deep into the curves, pastels, and licentious yearnings of a ridiculously saucy little style known as Rococo.

See the Images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/9/8/episode-33-jean-honor-fragonard-the-desired-moment-c-1770

Music Used:
Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Mknt”, “The Big Ten”, “Vernouillet”, “Swapping Tubes”, “Line Etching”, “Fern and Andy”
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

Sponsor:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely

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

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-of-man-1964

Music used:
Django Reinhardt, "Django's Tiger"
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Roundpine", "Borough", "Building The Sled", "Rate Sheet", "Lick Stick", "Pull Beyond Pull"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

Sponsors:
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www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely

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Trying to capture time in art is like trying to pin a wave upon the sand or hold a moonbeam in your hand. So leave it to Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto to do it so effectively by taking us to the Golden Age of Cinema.

"Seeking Stillness" is on view at the MFA, Boston until September 3, 2018.

See the images:
www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…nd-1993-1993

Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Cash Cow", "Aourourou", "A Little Powder", "Delicious", "Astrisx", "Bliste"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

Today's sponsors:
www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lonely
www.theconversationpod.com/

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Join the OG Ninja Turtle as he guides you into the Renaissance by way of an exquisite tour of heaven.

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Music Used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Lobo Loco, "Piano Cora Theme"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "UpUpUp and Over", "Slow Line Stomp", "Lakeside Path", "Perspiration", "Threads and Veils", "Moon Bicycle Theme"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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Welcome to the cult of the punk: where the skin is flayed, the contortions are twisty, and the struggle is real. So why can't we get enough?

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, "Taoudella", "Fifteen Street", "Smooth Stone", "Scraper", "Then A Gambling Problem", "Warm Fingers", "Chrome and Wax"

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Yoko Ono. You may have heard of her. She hooked up with that musician that time. Just under the wire, we end Women's History Month with a peek beneath Ono's art and reputation - and why we need to reconsider both.

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Plaster Combo", "Valantis", "Strange Dog Walk", "Hundred Mile", "Down at the Bank""
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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Can a comic strip be elevated to fine art? Or is Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein just plain dotty?

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Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Le Marais", "The Molerat", "Lemon and Melon", "Via Verre", "Lord Weasel", "Entrap"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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In this special episode, we listen to the audio from the live event at the PRX Podcast Garage, "Keepers of the Culture: A Celebration of Meduna and Holmes," which I had the privilege of participating in at the end of January. In it I chat with collage artist Ekua Holmes, play her some audio I produced on her work, and then we listen to art historian Barry Gathier give the curator talk to end all curator talks on art, artists, viewers, and why we do what we do.

Special thanks to PRX, the PRX Podcast Garage, and WGBH.

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Your Listener Patreon Challenge has been accepted! And now, let's dive together into kitsch: the frequency low enough for us all to hear.

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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"

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Our lady of the hour, muse of Dan Brown, satisfier of bucket lists, those eyes, that smile, La Gioconda, El Hefe. Just in time for the holidays, we bring you a super-sized episode on a super-sized love affair with a dinky little portrait. 

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 Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Tar and Spackle", "Welcome Home Sonny", "Caprese", "Tiny Putty", "Festering", "Inamorata", "Sunset at Sandy Isle", "Spins and Never Falls" 

Nat King Cole, "Mona Lisa"

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Whether you think Mark Rothko is the portal to spiritual transcendence or emotional-ambulance-chasing bunk, let's take the necessary time to explore his work without feeling like our souls are at stake. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "A Simple Blur", "Thematic", "Cases to Rest", "Plate Grayscale", "Drone Thistle," "Sage the Hunter" 

Dar Williams, "Mark Rothko Song" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees" 

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At the intersection of past and future sits a pack of hormonal dudes punching each other and making beautiful art. 

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 Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

Podington Bear, "Kaleidoscope" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Chase and We Follow", "The Telling", "Trelaga", "Thirteens" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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The Lonely Palette is thrilled to announce that we're a founding member of Hub & Spoke, a brand spanking new collective of Boston-centric, idea-driven podcasts. To kick things off, we're proud to present an episode of Soonish, the podcast about the future, hosted by veteran technology journalist Wade Roush. This episode, "Can Technology Save Museums?" not only asks some important questions about the future of art museums, but features me telling The Lonely Palette's origin story (spoiler: I say puke a lot). Learn more about Soonish and Hub & Spoke: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/10/24/special-episode-10-introducing-hub-spoke-by-way-of-soonish Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, "When In The West", "Cases to Rest"

Ceci n'est pas un target, and other bewildering and profound pronouncements by conceptual neo-Dadaist (with abstract Pop Art sensibilities) Jasper Johns. 

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 Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Soothe", "Helado", "Chapel Donder", "The Summit" 

Jason Leonard, "Ritual Six" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

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So. It appears that art history has a woman problem. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Waterborne", "Pat Dog", "Partly Sage", "Illway", "Turning to You", "Horizon Liner", "Soothe" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees” 

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In this special episode, we look at the exhibition Memory Unearthed: Henryk Ross’s Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto, and explore the Lodz ghetto specifically, Holocaust photography more generally, and the role our need for a good story has played in shaping our understanding of both. 

Memory Unearthed was on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston until July 30, 2017.

 See the images.

Music Used: The Blue Dot Sessions, "Doghouse", "Drone Pine", "Drone Birch", "3rd Chair", "Our Fingers Cold"

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Take a load off as you relax into this Song Dynasty masterpiece. You're going to be here for a while. 

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Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Masonry", "Exceter Lask", "Hickory Interlude", "Copper Halls", "Feathering", "Inside the Paper Crane", "Doghouse" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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Because it's hard to look directly into the sun. Or yourself. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Sunday Lights", "Town Market", "Rapids", "Liptis", "Ballast", "Masonry" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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On the occasion of its hundredth birthday, we dive into the art world's greatest joke (splash!). 

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Music Used: 

Podington Bear, "A1 Rogue", "In My Head" 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "In The Back Room", "Rafter", "FasterFasterBrighter", "Nesting", "Lamplist" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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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-a-grip postman friend, of course!

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Step In Step Out", "Scratcher", "Over the Fence", "Scalloped", "On Belay" 

Lee Rosevere, "Curiosity" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees” 

Podington Bear, "A1 Rogue"

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One man's trash is Ghanaian fiber artist El Anatsui's treasure. 

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Music used: 

Podington Bear, "Down and Around" 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Coronea", "Mercurial Vision", "Stipple", "Our Quiet Company", "Step In Step Out" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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The gospel according to Gauguin is basically an existential hodgepodge that you and I were never supposed to understand. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Flagger", "Pacing", "Open Flames", "One Quiet Conversation" 

Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo, "Point de vue" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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Welcome to Edward Hopper's specific, yet schematic, love letter to the alienation of the modern American city. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Lacquer Groove", "In Passage", "Cats Eye", "Tranceless", "Simple Melody", "Flagger" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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Dust off your verbs, it's time to make sense out of chaos. 

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Music used: 

Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch" 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Parade Shoes", "Inessential", "City Limits", "Lacquer Groove" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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The darlings, the crown jewels, the moneymakers. Just what the heck is it about these girls?! 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Brass Buttons", "Heliotrope", "Vittoro", "Filing Away" 

Lobo Loco, "White Shapes Beauty" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees” 

Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch"

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Think abstraction is totally inaccessible? Pull up a chair. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "The Provisions", "A Certain Lightness", "A Rush of Clear Water", "Brass Buttons" 

Lee Rosevere, "Puzzle Pieces" 

Tamar Avishai, "Grid (after Sol LeWitt's Drawing Series)"

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The German Expressionists get hot. Nazis get bothered. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

David Szeszlay, "Night Surfing" 

Michael Howard, "The Tallest Man in Idaho (Instrumental)" 

Jason Leonard, "Ritual Twelve" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Stilt", "Manele", "The Provisions" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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This big bully is about to give you a lesson in contrasts you won't soon forget. Featuring Dar Williams! 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Turning", "Downhill Racer", "Cloud Line" 

Lee Rosevere, "Reflections" 

Dar Williams and the WASTM Good Times House Choir, "The Water is Wide"

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