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1. Ep. 72 - Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" (1945)

   14 september 2026 · 41 min

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   “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, weather, midday lighting, and the luck of timing.” - Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press Lees meer

   At the end of the war in Western Europe, with the war in the Pacific still going strong, America was a tired country that needed a patriotic jolt. You can only position yourself so well: good photographer, heroic moment of reprieve amidst the horrific fighting, camera crew tailing the soldiers, hoping to capture even the slightest sense of what the sons and brothers of the nation were fighting for. But all the preparedness in the world can’t bank on the beauty of luck.

   This is the story of the luckiest snapshot ever taken.

   See the images: https://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2026/8/25/episode-72-joe-rosenthals-raising-the-flag-on-iwo-jima-1945

   Music used:

   The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"

   The Blue Dot Sessions, “Sunday Lights,” “Cherry Heath,” “Curious Kepler,” “Arlan Vale,” “Dreadnaut Files,” “Silent Ocean,” “Chromium Blush,” “Mencher and Polk,” “The Silver Hatch,” “10c Coffee”

   Bob Dylan, “The Ballad of Ira Hayes”

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

   8 juli 2025 · 38 min

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   “I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” - Norman Rockwell Lees meer

   Whether arguing for soft versus hard taco shells or the Neo-Nazi right to march in Skokie, freedom of speech is a fundamental right we all enjoy as Americans. But it turns out that telling people that is pretty complicated, actually. Thank goodness we have Norman Rockwell, virtuosic photorealistic painter and America's crown prince of nostalgia, to help us understand our fundamental freedoms from the intimacy of the magazines fanned across the coffee tables inside our homes.

   See the images: https://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2025/6/4/episode-70-norman-rockwells-freedom-of-speech-1943

   Music used:

   The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"

   The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Zeppelin,” “Lord Weasel,” “No Smoking,” “Transeless,” “Silver Lanyard,” “Ice Tumbler,” “Sino de Cobre,” “Georgia Overdrive,” “The Consulate”

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

   5 april 2025 · 24 min

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   “It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee Sookyung Lees meer

   Shattered porcelain is impossible to repair. As impossible as fully, and accurately, reconstructing the past. But who needs that pressure? What if, instead of tossing those shards in the dustbin of history, we acknowledged that the thing will never be what it once was? Maybe then we appreciate the beauty, and the human resilience, of what new things it could be, in the now.

   See the images: https://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2025/2/26/episode-69-yee-sookyungs-translated-vase-2011

   Music used:

   Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”

   The Blue Dot Sessions, “Littl Jon,” “The Dustbin,” “BlueGarden,” “Nesting,” “A Rush of Clear Water,” “A Common Pause”

   Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”

4. TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer

   6 maart 2025 · 1 uur 6 min

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   "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." - Annea Lockwood Lees meer

   The artist and composer Annea Lockwood is not just any musician. She is an artist of sound. She is a composer of art. Her music is performance art, and her art is always, always audio-rich and musical. She sends her microphones into the elements – fire, here, and rivers, in a recent series called Sound Maps, where she captures, among other things, the tonality of the different depths of the water. She loves chanting, tones, drones. She loves what sound does to our body, how we respond to it, how we visualize it. How sound breathes. How we breathe differently around different sounds.

   And for me, as an art historian who fell in love with sound, I get it. I think I get it. And this is what today’s conversation is about. Annea joined me to talk about what it means to listen with your body, to experience the silence in all the noise, and the noise in the silence. We talk about the value of musical training versus musical instinct. We talk about how rivers sound different from one another (they really do!). And we explore what an artist from New Zealand who gained prominence in the 1960s burning pianos can teach us about the art of sound, and what she can learn from her 85-year-old self, today.

   Episode webpage: https://www.thelonelypalette.com/interview/2025/2/27/annea-lockwood-composer-and-artist

   Music used:

   The Blue Dot Sessions, "Brer Rhetta," “A Common Pause,” "Tanguedo"

   Episode sponsors:

   Art of Crime

   The Seattle Prize

   Visual Arts Passage

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

   18 februari 2025 · 31 min

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   "The only thing permanent is change." - Felix Gonzalez-Torres Lees meer

   There is no way around it. The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay, Cuban-American artist who responded to - and died during - the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, is sad. His work is a memorial, both to a lost generation and to his own partner, Ross. Yet it is through these seemingly banal, industrial, or every day materials, and the powerful metaphor that they represent, that we can best get to the root of what loss can mean. And, maybe, healing as well.

   See the images: https://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2025/2/10/episode-68-felix-gonzalez-torres-untitled-march-5th-2-1991

   Music used:

   The Blue Dot Sessions, “A Little Powder,” “Lerennis,” “Taoudella,” “The Melt,” “Rafter”

   Open Book, “Second Chance”

   Episode sponsors:

   Art of Crime

   The Seattle Prize

   Visual Arts Passage

   Smartist App

   With extra special thanks to Martin Young.

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

   8 februari 2025 · 1 uur

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   “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 Lees meer

   Sebastian Smee has been the art critic for the Washington Post since 2018, but has written extensively about art for every publication you can think of, from here to his native Australia, and winning a Pulitzer prize for criticism along the way. Both his prose and his love of the work leaps off the page and into your lap, offering a guiding hand past the velvet rope, not just for his readers, but for himself: he’s a critic who is constantly looking inward, curious about his own responses to artworks, and what it can teach him about teaching us.

   Sebastian joined me to discuss his latest book, “Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism,” as well as writers on writing, becoming an expert about a movement on deadline, how looking back at the muddiness of a historical moment can help us understand the muddiness of ours, and what happens when art critics are themselves at a loss for the words to express why they just love this or that painting so darn much.

   See the images: https://www.thelonelypalette.com/interview/2025/2/6/sebastian-smee-art-critic

   Music used:

   The Blue Dot Sessions, “Town Market,” “Night Light,” “Brass Buttons”

   Episode sponsor:

   The Art of Crime Podcast

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

   26 januari 2025 · 26 min

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   "My line does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." - Cy Twombly Lees meer

   Critics have described the work of consummate scribbler Cy Twombly as at once "barely there" and overly academic, but what about us art civilians? What is it about these half-baked scraps, scratch, and scrawl that speaks to our own creative impulses, our own inner children dying to grab the crayon and crush the tip in an ecstatic series of fat, juicy loopdeloops?

   See the images: https://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2025/1/22/episode-67-cy-twomblys-second-voyage-to-italy-second-version-1962

   Music used:

   The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"

   The Blue Dot Sessions, “Inessential,” “Tiny Putty,” “A Burst of Light,” Palms Down,” “Parade Shoes,” “City Limits”

   Episode sponsor:

   The Art of Crime Podcast: https://www.artofcrimepodcast.com/

8. Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

   17 januari 2025 · 3 min

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   **Update! Norovirus has entered the chat. The episode will be released on Monday, January 27. Thank you for your patience! Lees meer

   Mark your calendars! The new season of The Lonely Palette drops Thursday, January 23rd! 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 Washington Post's Sebastian Smee, the artist and composer Annea Lockwood, and more. We've got a whole National Gallery residency! So listen and subscribe, rate and review, and fire up your earbuds for another season of looking with your ears.

9. BonusEp. 18 - A TLP Announcement! And Introducing The Rabbis Go South

   1 november 2024 · 23 min

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   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 independent art history podcast productivity. But your patience will be rewarded! And in the meantime, a few announcements:
   - Join me and my fellow H&S colleagues at the PRX Podcast Garage in Allson, MA on Wednesday, November 6 for an evening of audio camaraderie. Register here: https://bit.ly/3Cd05fB
   - Explore our Hub & Spoke Expo showcase, starting with the first episode of our very first exclusive Expo series, "The Rabbis Go South." (All episodes now available: https://bit.ly/3NUhhc8) Lees meer

   Imagine 16 American rabbis jailed for acting on their beliefs. The Rabbis Go South is a thrilling seven-part narrative podcast that uncovers a true story of Jewish-Black solidarity in St. Augustine, Florida during the Civil Rights Movement. An inspiring tale of hope for a divided world.

   The Rabbis Go South was created by documentary filmmakers Amy Geller and Gerald Peary. It’s a presentation of the Hub & Spoke Expo.

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

    7 maart 2024 · 1 uur

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    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 monuments across the greater U.S. and what their future says about where we are now and where we’re going. Lees meer

    This was the concluding episode, exploring how some monuments are larger than life, dwarfing us, making us feel small relative to the grandness of history. But what if a monument was human-scaled? What if it made us aware of our bodies in space? We don’t often think about the design choices that go into making a monument, but more and more, a new generation of artists and designers are reimagining what a monument can look and feel like, and the kinds of stories they can hold.

    This episode takes us to Montgomery, Alabama to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, to Shreveport, Louisiana, to the South Side of Chicago, to Navajo Nation in Arizona. It explores how many American monuments to slavery took inspiration from Holocaust memorials in Germany. And it looks at decentralized memorials that are using technology to help bring monuments to the past into the future.

    See the images:
    https://bit.ly/49FR3Ui

    Support the show:
    www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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