Tamar is alive! The Lonely Palette is alive! But in the year since we last spoke, she's been elbow-deep in... more

In this special episode of The Lonely Palette, I’m sharing the episode I made for the PRX limited-run podcast series... more

The Lonely Palette, as you've heard so often, is an enormously proud founding member of the Hub & Spoke Audio... more

Since her arrival on the art scene in the 1960s, legendary art writer Lucy Lippard’s work - searing, novelistic, crisp,... more

In the 1950s and 60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure street on the lower tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River—was home to some... more

Taking a break from writing about astronauts, Tom Wolfe donned his white suit and strolled to the art museums of... more

Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) may have gone down in history as the very first Western art historian, but he is also... more

The neoplatonic ideal of beauty, the girl on the half-shell, the naked chick riding a clam. Her tilted head and... more

In April 1989, Barbara Kruger - an artist, activist, and former magazine layout editor - created a flyer for a... more

Whether for his critics, his friends (...?), or his canvases, the Victorian-era, Gilded-age Aesthetic ex-pat painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler... more

Splotches, spills, and stains. They can evoke shapes, moods, energy, even music. Yet no one seemed to appreciate... more

The new season of The Lonely Palette is achingly close to starting up on Wednesday, June 7, but in the... more

The new season of The Lonely Palette is achingly close to starting up on Wednesday, June 7, but in the... more

Happy 7th birthday, The Lonely Palette! We're ringing in our itch with an quick update on next season, which... more

We're in THE HOME STRETCH of our Patreon Listener Challenge! This is indeed the time to pull up your socks... more

Our Patreon Listener Challenge is ongoing! And if you're on the fence about supporting the show, why not sit... more

A number of years ago, my Twitter pinged. Then it pinged again. All of a sudden, a whole... more

They say that those who can do and those who can’t teach. But “they” don’t seem to have ever... more

Light and dark. Frozen action. Angels with dirty faces. Infamously both a hothead punk and one of... more

Dar Williams has been described by The New Yorker as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters,” but to thirteen-year-old Tamar... more