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

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

1 play1 The Lonely Palette 1,321 followers1,321 115 tracks115 In the 1950s and 60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure street on the lower tip... more

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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

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