The Lonely Palette

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

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

Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

The Lonely Palette returns for a new season, continuing its mission to democratize art history by examining individual objects through a multisensory lens. The upcoming episodes feature a diverse range of subjects, including Lawren Harris’s icy landscapes, the bulbous textures of Korean sculpture, and the fleshy, "squi...

Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

Bonus - Introducing "The Rabbis Go South"

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

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

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

BonusEp. 17 - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour

Bonus - The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour

TLP Interview with Lucy R. Lippard, Art Writer

BonusEp. 16: Tamar Avishai interviews Lucy R. Lippard, Art Writer

TLP Interview with Prudence Peiffer, Author & Content Director, MoMA

BonusEp. 15: Tamar Avishai interviews Prudence Peiffer, Author and Content Director, MoMA

Bonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word

BonusEp. 14: The Lonely Palette Reads Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word

Bonus - The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari on Sandro Botticelli

BonusEp. 13: The Lonely Palette Reads Giorgio Vasari on Sandro Botticelli

Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)

Ep. 65 - Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" (1485-86)

Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus functions as an ethereal portal to Neoplatonic ideals, where physical beauty serves as a catalyst for contemplating divine, abstract truths. While the painting famously ignores the rigorous anatomical and perspectival standards of the High Italian Renaissance, it succeeds as a poe...