The Lonely Palette

Episode 72: Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" (1945)

“While the men prepared to replace the first flag, I was able to position myself for a picture, the elements of which were composed by the men themselves, and the wind, w

Episode 71: Looking Back on 10 Years of The Lonely Palette (with Julie Shapiro)

"Art isn't what you see. It's what you help others see." - Edgar Degas | "Close your eyes/sometimes it helps." - Rhianna A little over ten years ago, on May 4th, 2016, I

TLP Interview with Helena De Groot, Audio Producer and Sound Artist

"The deeper you go, the less indulgent it will be.” - Helena's stickie note Helena De Groot is an audio maker, but, really, she’s an audio artist. Her series, Creation M

TLP Interview with The Cheeky Scholar

Earlier this year, I had a really, really great conversation with Dr. Lara Ayad, host of the podcast The Cheeky Scholar - and I'm proud to share it today. We cast our net

Bonus - Why Public Radio Matters: A Conversation Between Rumble Strip's Erica Heilman and Jay Allison

It's September, and time to get back to work. That means defending public radio against federal defunding, exploring its core values, and taking an honest look at how we

In Plain Sight - Ep. 3: "Go Deeper"

"You don't go look at a Rothko; you go inside a Rothko." - Claire, visitor, National Gallery of Art Modern art. Two little words that strike so much fear in the heart of

In Plain Sight - Ep. 2: "Listen Closer"

"Questions and the search for answers, and the appreciation of beauty, and then wanting to share it with other people, to go look at it closely together. Then you realize

In Plain Sight - Ep. 1: "Look Longer"

"There are different levels of looking. And it's exciting to bring people to the different levels."  - Estelle Quain, docent, National Gallery of Art How do YOU feel whe

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

“I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” - Norman Rockwell Whether arguing for soft versus hard taco shells or the Neo-Nazi

TLP Interview with Judith Wechsler, Art Historian and Filmmaker

"Walter, let's go for a walk."  - Judith Wechsler, in the arcades of Paris. Professor Judith Wechsler is an art historian, filmmaker, writer, researcher, Francophile, an

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

“It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee Sookyung Shattered porcelain is impossible to rep

TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer

"It's the close focus that draws me into a sound. And then it sort of spreads out and spreads through my body. And I let that happen, and I'm listening in a different way

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

"The only thing permanent is change." - Felix Gonzalez-Torres There is no way around it. The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay, Cuban-American artist who responded to

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

“In the end, what interests me is the way art connects with life. Because otherwise, I don’t quite understand what it’s for.” - Sebastian Smee Sebastian Smee has been th

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

"My line does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." - Cy Twombly Critics have described the work of consummate scribbler Cy Twombly as at once "ba

Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

This season, we've got a stellar line-up: Cy Twombly, Lawren Harris, Käthe Kollwitz, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, to name just a few. We've got interviews with the Washingt

Bonus - Introducing "The Rabbis Go South"

Tamar is alive! The Lonely Palette is alive! But in the year since we last spoke, she's been elbow-deep in audio projects galore - good for the pocketbook, but bad for in

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

In this special episode of The Lonely Palette, I’m sharing the episode I made for the PRX limited-run podcast series "Monumental," which interrogates the state of monumen

Bonus - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour

The Lonely Palette, as you've heard so often, is an enormously proud founding member of the Hub & Spoke Audio Collective, a group of fiercely independent, story-driven, m

TLP Interview with Lucy R. Lippard, Art Writer

Since her arrival on the art scene in the 1960s, legendary art writer Lucy Lippard’s work - searing, novelistic, crisp, and endlessly curious - as well as her insights, a