The Lonely Palette is an art history podcast hosted by Tamar Avishai, a lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[1][2][3][4] In each episode, Avishai focuses on a single work of art, explaining its historical context and significance. The podcast has been received positively by critics and won several awards.
| The Lonely Palette | |
|---|---|
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Tamar Avishai |
| Genre | Art history |
| Language | English |
| Production | |
| No. of episodes | 50, plus 4 bonus (as of December 2020[update]) |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 2016 |
| Provider | Hub & Spoke |
| Related | |
| Website | www |
Format edit
Each episode examines a single work of art. Avishai begins with a montage of person on the street interviews with museum-goers at the Museum of Fine Arts reacting to the work. She then explains its historical context and significance.[5]
Reception edit
The podcast has been received positively and recognized on a number of best-of lists. It won The Improper Bostonian's 2018 best podcast award.[6]
Episodes edit
This section needs to be updated. (November 2021) |
| No. | Title | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Paul Cézanne's Fruit and Jug on a Table (c. 1890–94)" | May 11, 2016 |
| 2 | "Christian Boltanski's Lumieres (blue square – Sylvie) (2000)" | May 24, 2016 |
| 3 | "John Singleton Copley's Portrait of Samuel Adams (1771)" | June 7, 2016 |
| 4 | "Edgar Degas' Duchessa di Montejasi with Her Daughters, Elena and Camilla (c. 1876)" | June 21, 2016 |
| 5 | "Andy Warhol's Red Disaster (1962)" | July 5, 2016 |
| 6 | "Pablo Picasso's Portrait of a Woman (1910)" | July 20, 2016 |
| 7 | "Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series (1892–94)" | September 7, 2016 |
| 8 | "Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses (1998)" | September 21, 2016 |
| 9 | "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Reclining Nude (1909)" | October 5, 2016 |
| 10 | "Piet Mondrian's Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue (1927)" | October 26, 2016 |
| 11 | "John Singer Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882)" | November 15, 2016 |
| 12 | "Jackson Pollock's Number 10 (1949)" | December 14, 2016 |
| 13 | "Edward Hopper's Room in Brooklyn (1932)" | January 4, 2017 |
| 14 | "Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897–98)" | January 25, 2017 |
| 15 | "El Anatsui's Black River (2009)" | March 8, 2017 |
| 16 | "Vincent van Gogh's Postman Joseph Roulin (1888)" | March 29, 2017 |
| 17 | "Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917)" | April 18, 2017 |
| 18 | "J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship (1840)" | May 24, 2017 |
| 19 | "Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion (Song Dynasty, 12th c. CE)" | June 14, 2017 |
| 20 | "Henryk Ross's Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto" | July 5, 2017 |
| 21 | "Mary Cassatt's In the Loge (1878)" | September 6, 2017 |
| 22 | "Jasper Johns' Target (1961)" | September 27, 2017 |
| 23 | "Umberto Boccioni's Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)" | November 1, 2017 |
| 24 | "Meditations on Mark Rothko" | November 22, 2017 |
| 25 | "Mission: Mona Lisa" | December 22, 2017 |
| 26 | "C.M. Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker (1903)" | February 15, 2018 |
| 27 | "Roy Lichtenstein's Ohhh...Alright... (1964)" | March 7, 2018 |
| 28 | "Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964)" | March 29, 2018 |
| 29 | "Egon Schiele's Nude Self-Portrait (1910)" | April 26, 2018 |
| 30 | "Donatello's Madonna of the Clouds (c.1425–1435)" | May 31, 2018 |
| 31 | "Hiroshi Sugimoto's Byrd Theater, Richmond, 1993 (1993)" | July 12, 2018 |
| 32 | "René Magritte' The Son of Man (1964)" | August 28, 2018 |
| 33 | "Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Desired Moment (c. 1770)" | September 13, 2018 |
| 34 | "Dance Dance Revolution" | November 14, 2018 |
| 35 | "Cecilia Vicuña's Disappeared Quipu (2018)" | December 14, 2018 |
| 36 | "Behold the Monkey" | January 31, 2019 |
| 37 | "Ansel Adams' The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1942)" | March 15, 2019 |
| 38 | "Wassily Kandinsky's Untitled (1922)" | March 28, 2019 |
| 39 | "Rembrandt van Rijn's Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh (1632)" | June 7, 2019 |
| 40 | "Frida Kahlo's Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia) (1928)" | July 19, 2019 |
| 41 | "Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (1434)" | November 29, 2019 |
| 42 | "Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa (C.1829–1831)" | February 26, 2020 |
| 43 | "Carmen Herrera's Blanco y Verde (no. 1) (1962)" | March 1, 2020 |
| 44 | "Louise Bourgeois' Pillar (1949–50)" | March 8, 2020 |
| 45 | "Georgia O'Keeffe's Deer's Skull With Pedernal (1936)" | March 15, 2020 |
| 46 | "Patty Chang's Melons (At A Loss) (1998)" | March 22, 2020 |
| 47 | "Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte (1884)" | May 4, 2020 |
| 48 | "Anselm Kiefer's Margarete and Sulamith (1981)" | August 3, 2020 |
| 49 | "Claes Oldenburg's Giant Toothpaste Tube (1964)" | September 10, 2020 |
| 50 | "Carrie Mae Weems's Not Manet's Type (1997)" | December 4, 2020 |
Special Episodes edit
| No. | Title | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | "Art! What is it Good For?" | May 4, 2016 |
| 0.2 | "Introducing Hub & Spoke (by way of Soonish)" | October 25, 2017 |
Interviews edit
| No. | Title | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| "Keepers of the Culture: A Celebration Of Maduna And Holmes (Live Event at the PRX Podcast Garage)" | February 7, 2018 | |
| "Cecilia Vicuña, Poet & Artist" | December 14, 2018 | |
| "Dan Byers, Director of the Carpenter Center, Harvard University" | March 28, 2019 | |
| "The Guerrilla Girls, Feminist Activists & Artists" | November 12, 2019 | |
| "Ralph Steadman, Artist & Illustrator" | December 18, 2019 |
References edit
- ^ Pfitzinger, Julie (September 1, 2020). "LISTEN: 'The Lonely Palette' Podcast Makes Art Accessible". Next Avenue. Twin Cities PBS. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Finkel, Jori (March 20, 2020). "10 Binge-Worthy Art Podcasts in the Age of Coronavirus". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 20, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Mathiowetz, Adrianne (July 20, 2017). "Meet Tamar Avishai, Podcast Producer Behind "The Lonely Palette"". Scout Somerville. Archived from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Griffin, Grace (March 3, 2020). "At the MFA, a new podcaster-in-residence spotlights women artists". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Locke, Charley (December 7, 2016). "Get Inside the Creative Process With These 5 Podcasts". Wired. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ "Podcast 2018 Winner: The Lonely Palette". The Improper Bostonian. 2018. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.