The Lonely Palette
Episodes
Episode 71: Looking Back on 10 Years of The Lonely Palette (with Julie Shapiro)
23 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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, ...
TLP Interview with Helena De Groot, Audio Producer and Sound Artist
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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....
TLP Interview with The Cheeky Scholar
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 to...
Bonus - Why Public Radio Matters: A Conversation Between Rumble Strip's Erica Heilman and Jay Allison
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ho...
In Plain Sight - Ep. 3: "Go Deeper"
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You don't go look at a Rothko; you go inside a Rothko." - Claire, visitor, National Gallery of ArtModern art. Two little words that strike so much fe...
In Plain Sight - Ep. 2: "Listen Closer"
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 togeth...
In Plain Sight - Ep. 1: "Look Longer"
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"There are different levels of looking. And it's exciting to bring people to the different levels." - Estelle Quain, docent, National Gallery of Art...
Ep. 70 - Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" (1943)
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.” - Norman RockwellWhether arguing for soft versus hard taco s...
TLP Interview with Judith Wechsler, Art Historian and Filmmaker
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Walter, let's go for a walk." - Judith Wechsler, in the arcades of Paris.Professor Judith Wechsler is an art historian, filmmaker, writer, research...
Ep. 69 - Yee Sookyung's "Translated Vase" (2011)
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“It is not about fixing or mending, but about celebrating the vulnerability of the object and ultimately myself.” - Yee SookyungShattered porcelai...
TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 listenin...
Ep. 68 - Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (March 5th) #2" (1991)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The only thing permanent is change." - Felix Gonzalez-TorresThere is no way around it. The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay, Cuban-American artis...
TLP Interview with Sebastian Smee, Art Critic, The Washington Post
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“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...
Ep. 67 - Cy Twombly's "Second Voyage to Italy (Second Version), 1962"
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"My line does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." - Cy TwomblyCritics have described the work of consummate scribbler Cy Twom...
Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 intervi...
Bonus - Introducing "The Rabbis Go South"
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 pocket...
Ep. 66 - Bringing Monuments Home (from PRX's Monumental)
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of The Lonely Palette, I’m sharing the episode I made for the PRX limited-run podcast series "Monumental," which interrogate...
Bonus - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 independ...
TLP Interview with Lucy R. Lippard, Art Writer
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since her arrival on the art scene in the 1960s, legendary art writer Lucy Lippard’s work - searing, novelistic, crisp, and endlessly curious - as w...
TLP Interview with Prudence Peiffer, Author & Content Director, MoMA
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1950s and 60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure street on the lower tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River—was home to some of the most icon...
Bonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
www.patreon.com/lonelypaletteMusic used:Glenn Miller, “Tuxedo Junction”The Blue Dot Sessions, "No Smoking," "Mercurial Vision"Our website:www.thel...
Bonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari on Sandro Botticelli
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free edition of The Lonely Palette Reads, a perk that will be going out exclusively to Patreon patrons in the future. To become a patron, go...
Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I can't help the way I'm feeling/Goddess of love, please take me to your leader/I can't help, I keep on dancing. - Lady GagaThe neoplatonic ideal of b...
Ep. 64 - Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground)" (1989)
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:bit.ly/45wNrSbMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Blue Dot Sessions, “Thread Indigo,” “Monder,” “Tall Jour...
Ep. 63 - James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl" (1861-62)
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
See the Images:bit.ly/3PMpK3oMusic Used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “...
Ep. 62 - Helen Frankenthaler's "Madame Butterfly" (2000)
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:bit.ly/3ChhuAE Music used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, ...
Bonus - The Lonely Palette Live at On Air Fest (and an update!)
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 7th birthday, The Lonely Palette! We're ringing in our itch with an quick update on next season, which starts in June, and a recording of our li...
TLP Interview with Avery Trufelman, Design & Fashion Podcaster
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode webpage:bit.ly/3jtcOBlMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Swapping Tubes”The Kinks, “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”Support our year-end...
Ep. 61 - Under the Midnight Sun
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:bit.ly/3FX0S3HMusic used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Lerennis,” “Lissa,” “Ice Tumble...
Ep. 60 - Caravaggio's "The Crucifixion of St. Andrew" (1607)
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:bit.ly/3iNqpTYMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"Charles Daab, “Irish an...
TLP Interview with Dar Williams, Singer-Songwriter
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dar Williams has been described by The New Yorker as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters,” but to thirteen-year-old Tamar she was, qu...
TLP Interview with Adam Gopnik, Critic, The New Yorker
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode webpage:bit.ly/3COhnOpMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Balti”Mandy Patinkin, “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in the Park with George...
TLP Interview with Dr. Charlotte Mullins, Art Critic & Broadcaster
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Music used:The Blue Dot Sessions, "Spark"Rod Stewart, "Every Picture Tells A Story"Charlotte's book:amzn.to/3TksKDlEpisodes referenced:Anselm Kiefer: ...
Ep. 59 - Sarah Sze's "Fallen Sky" (2021)
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What goes up into the sky must come down into the earth, and fortunately for us we’ve got Sarah Sze, mistress of materials, memory, and meaning, hel...
Ep. 58 - Odili Donald Odita's "Cut" (2016)
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Betcha never realized how deeply color colored your world - and the world - until you found yourself dancing down the diagonal of this showstopping pr...
Ep. 57 - Juno, A Colossal Roman Statue (late 1st c. BCE)
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was produced in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.See the images:bit.ly/3tXx80oMusic used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bi...
Ep. 56 - Memorials (Collaboration with Hi-Phi Nation)
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Music Used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Drone Pine,” “Taoudella,” “The Consulate,” “Our Fingers Cold,” “Slider”Silver Maple, “After t...
Ep. 55 - Harriet Powers' "Pictorial Quilt" (1895-98)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was produced in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition, “Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories” is on ...
Ep. 54 - Grant Wood's "American Gothic" (1930)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:bit.ly/2WuV2CQMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “...
TLP Interview with Dr. Rachel Saunders, Curator, Harvard Art Museums
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
See the images discussed:bit.ly/3kQbAiiMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “One Little Triumph,” “Sage the Hunter”Tamar’s exhibition review in...
Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 3: The Urban Sublime
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artists Explored:Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, Charles Sheeler, Martin WongSee the Images:bit.ly/34AE9XwMusic Used:The ...
Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/202…ost-pandemicMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “Noe Noe,” “A Certain Lightness,” “Alge...
Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 2: The Figure
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artists Explored:Lalla Essaydi, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Sally Mann, Dawoud BeySee the Images:addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/P...
Bonus - Look With Your Ears No. 1: Abstraction
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artists Explored:Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Donald JuddSee the Images:addison.andover.edu/AboutUs/Pages/Podcast.aspxM...
Trailer - Look With Your Ears (in partnership with the Addison Gallery of American Art)
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more information on the exhibition, visit:addison.andover.edu/Exhibitions/90/…es/default.aspx.Music used:The Blue Dot Sessions, "Waterbourne" Ho...
Ep. 52 - Ólafur Elíasson's "Untitled (Spiral)" (2017)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"The Blue Dot Sessions, “Daymaze,” “Plate Glass,” “Discovery Harbor,” “Wahre,” ...
Ep. 51 - Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document" (1973-79)
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:bit.ly/3uaWHtaMusic used:The Blue Dot Sessions, “La Inglesa,” “Eggs and Powder,” “Paper Feather,” “Arizona Moon,” ”Lo...
TLP Interview with Ralph Steadman, Artist & Illustrator
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[2:18]: Love of Picasso and Duchamp.[3:11]: Where do you start with caricature, the body or the soul?[5:40]: Drawing with a pen – “no such thing a...
Ep. 50 - Carrie Mae Weems' "Not Manet's Type" (1997)
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
See the images:bit.ly/3omDroOMusic used:Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”The Blue Dot Sessions, “Jumbel,” “Turning to You,” “Pastel d...
TLP Interview with The Guerrilla Girls, Feminist Activists & Artists
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
[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...
Ep. 49 - Claes Oldenburg's "Giant Toothpaste Tube" (1964)
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 wo...
Episode 48 - Anselm Kiefer's "Margarete and Sulamith" (1981)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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/31gUSwWMusic us...
Ep. 47 - George Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" (1884-86)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Dip...
Ep. 40 Re-Release - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Wo...
Ep. 46 - Patty Chang's "Melons (At A Loss)" (1998)
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Wo...
Ep. 45 - Georgia O'Keeffe's "Deer's Skull with Pedernal" (1936)
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Wo...
Ep. 44 - Louise Bourgeois' "Pillar" (1949-50)
08 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Wo...
Ep. 43 - Carmen Herrera's "Blanco y Verde (no. 1)" (1962)
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Lonely Palette is currently the podcast-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, highlighting five objects from the ongoing exhibition "Wo...
Ep. 42 - Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1829–1831)
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 J...
Ep. 41 - Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait" (1434)
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Whoever said the devil was in the details clearly had a thing for Northern Renaissance portraiture.See the images:www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/20...
Bonus - Open Source, "The Bauhaus In Your House," ft. The Lonely Palette
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 pres...
Bonus - Artists of Camberville interviews Tamar Avishai
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 40 - Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928)
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
See the images: www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/201…-dos-mujeres Music used: Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger” The Andrews Sisters, "B...
Ep. 39 - Rembrandt van Rijn's "Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh" (1632)
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
TLP Interview with Dan Byers, Director of Harvard's Carpenter Center
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 38 - Wassily Kandinsky's "Untitled" (1922)
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The later work of Russian ex-pat turned German Expressionist turned indispensable Bauhaus faculty member Wassily Kandinsky is a lot like the Bauhaus i...
Ep. 37 - Ansel Adams' "The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming" (1942)
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 36 - Behold the Monkey
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 resto...
TLP Interview with Cecilia Vicuña, Poet & Artist
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Ep. 35 - Cecilia Vicuña's "Disappeared Quipu" (2018)
16 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thick woolen knots, suspended from the ceiling, alive with projections and immersed in sound. You might not realize that Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuñ...
Ep. 34 - Dance Dance Revolution
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 exi...
Ep. 33 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "The Desired Moment" (c. 1770)
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Powder those wigs and ungird those loins: today we're diving deep into the curves, pastels, and licentious yearnings of a ridiculously saucy little st...
Ep. 32 - René Magritte's "The Son of Man" (1964)
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 image...
Ep. 31 - Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Byrd Theater, Richmond, 1993" (1993)
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 30 - Donatello's "Madonna of the Clouds" (c. 1425-1435)
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join the OG Ninja Turtle as he guides you into the Renaissance by way of an exquisite tour of heaven.See the images.Music Used:The Andrews Sisters, "B...
Ep. 29 - Egon Schiele's "Nude Self-Portrait" (1910)
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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?See the im...
Ep. 28 - Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece" (1964)
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep. 27 - Roy Lichtenstein's "Ohhh... Alright..." (1964)
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Can a comic strip be elevated to fine art? Or is Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein just plain dotty?See the images.Music used:The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir ...
Bonus - Keepers of the Culture (Live Event at the PRX Podcast Garage)
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ho...
Ep. 26 - C.M. Coolidge's "Dogs Playing Poker" (1903)
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Your Listener Patreon Challenge has been accepted! And now, let's dive together into kitsch: the frequency low enough for us all to hear.See the image...
Ep. 25 - Mission: Mona Lisa
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 br...
Ep. 24 - Meditations on Mark Rothko
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you think Mark Rothko is the portal to spiritual transcendence or emotional-ambulance-chasing bunk, let's take the necessary time to explore h...
Ep. 23 - Umberto Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913)
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At the intersection of past and future sits a pack of hormonal dudes punching each other and making beautiful art. See the images. Music used: The ...
Bonus - Introducing Hub & Spoke (by way of Soonish)
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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-dr...
Ep. 22 - Jasper Johns' "Target" (1961)
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ceci n'est pas un target, and other bewildering and profound pronouncements by conceptual neo-Dadaist (with abstract Pop Art sensibilities) Jasper Joh...
Ep. 21 - Mary Cassatt's "In the Loge" (1878)
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
So. It appears that art history has a woman problem. See the images Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessi...
Ep. 20 - Henryk Ross's Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto (1940-44)
04 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, we look at the exhibition Memory Unearthed: Henryk Ross’s Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto, and explore the Lodz ghetto speci...
Ep. 19 - Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion (Song Dynasty, 12th c. CE)
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Take a load off as you relax into this Song Dynasty masterpiece. You're going to be here for a while. See the images Music used: The Andrews Sister...
Ep. 18 - JMW Turner's "The Slave Ship" (1840)
23 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Because it's hard to look directly into the sun. Or yourself. See the images Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue ...
Ep. 17 - Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (1917)
18 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the occasion of its hundredth birthday, we dive into the art world's greatest joke (splash!). See the images Music Used: Podington Bear, "A1 R...
Ep. 16 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (1888)
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 cours...
Ep. 15 - El Anatsui's "Black River" (2009)
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One man's trash is Ghanaian fiber artist El Anatsui's treasure. See the image Music used: Podington Bear, "Down and Around" The Andrews Sisters,...
Ep. 14 - Paul Gauguin's "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" (1897-98)
25 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The gospel according to Gauguin is basically an existential hodgepodge that you and I were never supposed to understand. See the image Music used:...
Ep. 13 - Edward Hopper's "Room in Brooklyn" (1932)
03 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Edward Hopper's specific, yet schematic, love letter to the alienation of the modern American city. See the image Music used: The Andr...
Ep. 12 - Jackson Pollock's "Number 10, 1949" (1949)
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dust off your verbs, it's time to make sense out of chaos. See the image Music used: Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch" The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir B...
Ep. 11 - John Singer Sargent's "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" (1882)
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The darlings, the crown jewels, the moneymakers. Just what the heck is it about these girls?! See the image Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei...
Ep. 10 - Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue" (1927)
25 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Think abstraction is totally inaccessible? Pull up a chair. See the image Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot...
Ep. 9 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Reclining Nude" (1909)
04 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The German Expressionists get hot. Nazis get bothered. See the image Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" David Szeszlay, "...
Ep. 8 - Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipses" (1996)
20 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This big bully is about to give you a lesson in contrasts you won't soon forget. Featuring Dar Williams! See the image Music used: The Andrews Si...
Ep. 7 - Claude Monet's "Rouen Cathedral" Series (1892-94)
06 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
After centuries in the shadows, it's light's turn to shine. See the image Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue D...