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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.

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Tamar Avishai

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Yee Sookyung
Yee Sookyung is a contemporary South Korean artist known for her innovative work with ceramics, particularly her use of shattered porcelain. Her art often explores themes of vulnerability, resilience, and the beauty of imperfection. Sookyung's work has been exhibited internationally, and she is recognized for her unique approach to reconstructing and reinterpreting traditional ceramic techniques.
Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood is a renowned artist and composer known for her innovative approach to sound and music. Born in New Zealand, she gained prominence in the 1960s for her unique performances that often involve the use of unconventional instruments, including burning pianos. Lockwood's work explores the relationship between sound and the environment, as exemplified in her recent series 'Sound Maps,' where she captures the tonal qualities of various natural elements, such as rivers and fire. Her artistic practice emphasizes the physical and emotional responses to sound, making her a significant figure in the field of sound art.
Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee has been the art critic for The Washington Post since 2018. He has written extensively about art for various publications, both in the United States and his native Australia. Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic known for his engaging prose and deep love for art. His latest book, 'Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism,' explores the connections between historical moments and artistic movements, reflecting on how art can illuminate our understanding of life.

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Yee Sookyung Translated Vase shattered porcelain vulnerability human resilience art history Annea Lockwood sound art music performance art Sound Maps listening musical training New Zealand artist burning pianos Felix Gonzalez-Torres AIDS crisis memorial loss healing Cuban-American artist art Sebastian Smee Washington Post Paris in Ruins Impressionism art criticism life and art connection

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The podcast that returns art history to the masses one painting, sculpture, photograph, and urinal at a time. Created and hosted by Tamar Avishai.

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0:00 23:40

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

Hosts
Tamar Avishai
Guests
Yee Sookyung
Keywords
Yee Sookyung Translated Vase shattered porcelain vulnerability human resilience art history

“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 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.

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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”

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0:00 1:06:21

TLP Interview with Annea Lockwood, Artist and Composer

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Tamar Avishai
Guests
Annea Lockwood
Keywords
Annea Lockwood sound art music performance art Sound Maps listening musical training New Zealand artist burning pianos

"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

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.

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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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0:00 31:14

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

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Tamar Avishai
Keywords
Felix Gonzalez-Torres AIDS crisis memorial loss healing Cuban-American artist

"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 - 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.

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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.

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0:00 1:00:18

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

Hosts
Tamar Avishai
Guests
Sebastian Smee
Keywords
art Sebastian Smee Washington Post Paris in Ruins Impressionism art criticism life and art connection

“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 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.

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Music used:

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

Episode sponsor:

The Art of Crime Podcast

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Ratings

Global:
4.9 rating 1036 reviews

USA

4.9 ratings 795 reviews

Canada

4.8 ratings 88 reviews

UK

4.7 ratings 74 reviews

Australia

4.9 ratings 49 reviews

South Africa

4.8 ratings 12 reviews

New Zealand

4.9 ratings 7 reviews

Singapore

5.0 ratings 6 reviews

Ireland

5.0 ratings 5 reviews