Art Podcast

In our second episode we are joined by Dr. Robin Kodner, Phoebe's first 'sister of science' from way back in grad school. They discuss mojitos as therapy, grading in a hot tub, "book" clubs, and the joys of mentoring students (really!).

Music for this episode from:
BenSound, "Badass"  www.bensound.com
BenSound, "Sexy" www.bensound.com
Wang Chung, "Dance Hall Days"

Episode 2: Robin Kodner

Lucy, Lindsey, and Tamar come together to sport pussyhats and sing some bluegrass!  Enjoy.

The Wailin' Darlins - Crossing Muddy Waters (John Hiatt cover) - 1.22.17

With special guest Lindsey Massar on cello.  Recorded at Dar Williams' Writing A Song That Matters songwriting retreat at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, NY. (July 2016)

It's just a grid, that's all
A simple grid, just covering a wall
It took a lifetime worth of time
Of straight not straight and broken lines
So this is why you brought me here

You said
Its quiet pulls me close
Then suddenly and stubbornly it's closed
And I don't trust something that knows what I will do
In a way it reminds me of you

And now I suppose
You'll be the one to tell me how this story goes
So ready with your answers
I wish I had some of those

I said
These broken lines, well look at what they did
They gave you permission to think outside the grid
That another someone took the time to make
And misinterpretation is the risk that we all take

I'm not the one who knows
How this story really ever goes
But your withholding little smiles
Gotta get me some of those

You said
Well, what did you expect?
How is it worth my time to make these lines connect?
I said
I'm really not sure
But that fire on the horizon makes this all matter a little more

And there's a time for open
And maybe there's time for shut
And maybe we make space for maybe
And maybe we make space for but

It's just a grid, that's all
A simple grid standing three meters tall
It took a lifetime of time
And straight not straight and broken lines
And this is why I brought you here

It's simple and superimposed
It's just how a story like this goes
And straight not straight is what I chose
It's what I chose.

Tamar - Grid (after Sol LeWitt's Drawing Series)

The Wailin' Darlins - How Are You Doing? (The Living Sisters cover) - 9.24.17

The Wailin' Darlins - In the Long Run (Staves cover) - 12.29.18

The Wailin' Darlins - Somebody Who Loves Me (Whitney Houston cover) - 12.29.18

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 you look like a shark?

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

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Support the show!  Some more!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Ep. 36 - Behold the Monkey

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:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2020/2/5/episode-43-carmen-herreras-blanco-y-verde-no-1-1962

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

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

Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Ep. 43 - Carmen Herrera's "Blanco y Verde (no. 1)" (1962)

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:
http://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:
https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/women-take-the-floor

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Ep. 44 - Louise Bourgeois' "Pillar" (1949-50)

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:
https://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”

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Re-ReleaseEp. 40 - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)

The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and we're partnering up to bring the museum to you during its closure due to Covid-19 by spotlighting both the rock star and the lesser-known objects from the museum's permanent collection.  So relax into your PJs, put your feet up, and let's #MuseumFromHome together.

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

See the images:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2019/5/23/episode-39-rembrandt-van-rijns-portrait-of-aeltje-uylenburgh-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"

Support the show!
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Re-ReleaseEp. 39 - Rembrandt van Rijn's "Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh" (1632)

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"

Support the show:
www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

Episode sponsor:
www.evanblanch.com/lonely

Ep. 47 - George Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" (1884-86)

Catch a sneak peak of what’s coming this season on Raw Material's "summer mixtape," from SFMOMA.

Season update: Raw Material is temporarily suspending this season to create space for more urgent stories and conversations. Black lives matter.

Raw Material Mixtape: The Beholder's Share

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.

Ep. 36 - Behold the Monkey

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