The Lonely Palette – Details, episodes & analysis

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.
- 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!)

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.

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.

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.

Listen to the Monumental podcast series.

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Music used:

Django Reinhardt, “Django’s Tiger”

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"

The Blue Dot Sessions, “Bedroll,” “A Common Pause,” “Palms Down,” “Desmontes,” “Delamine,” “Greylock,” “Angel Tooth,” “Dear Myrtle”

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"

Episode sponsor:

The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments: bit.ly/43Qp1SJ

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Register for our Hub & Spoke live show in Woodstock, VT on June 15:

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Welcome to Edward Hopper's specific, yet schematic, love letter to the alienation of the modern American city. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Lacquer Groove", "In Passage", "Cats Eye", "Tranceless", "Simple Melody", "Flagger" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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Dust off your verbs, it's time to make sense out of chaos. 

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Music used: 

Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch" 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Parade Shoes", "Inessential", "City Limits", "Lacquer Groove" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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The darlings, the crown jewels, the moneymakers. Just what the heck is it about these girls?! 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Brass Buttons", "Heliotrope", "Vittoro", "Filing Away" 

Lobo Loco, "White Shapes Beauty" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees” 

Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch"

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Think abstraction is totally inaccessible? Pull up a chair. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "The Provisions", "A Certain Lightness", "A Rush of Clear Water", "Brass Buttons" 

Lee Rosevere, "Puzzle Pieces" 

Tamar Avishai, "Grid (after Sol LeWitt's Drawing Series)"

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The German Expressionists get hot. Nazis get bothered. 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

David Szeszlay, "Night Surfing" 

Michael Howard, "The Tallest Man in Idaho (Instrumental)" 

Jason Leonard, "Ritual Twelve" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Stilt", "Manele", "The Provisions" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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This big bully is about to give you a lesson in contrasts you won't soon forget. Featuring Dar Williams! 

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Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "Turning", "Downhill Racer", "Cloud Line" 

Lee Rosevere, "Reflections" 

Dar Williams and the WASTM Good Times House Choir, "The Water is Wide"

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After centuries in the shadows, it's light's turn to shine. 

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 Music used: 

The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" 

The Blue Dot Sessions, "The Spinnet", "Lahaina", "Discovery Harbor", "Santre" 

Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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