Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season
The Lonely Palette

Official Trailer: The Lonely Palette's Upcoming Season

B2Upper-intermediateJanuary 16, 20253 min

This season, we've got a stellar line-up: Cy Twombly, Lawren Harris, Käthe Kollwitz, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, to name just a few. We've got interviews with the Washington Post's Sebastian Smee, the artist and composer Annea Lockwood, and more. We've got a whole National Gallery residency! So listen and subscribe, rate and review, and fire up your earbuds for another season of looking with your ears. If you support the work we do, consider becoming a patron, or simply leaving us a tip. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for i...

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over the ballpoint pen from his pocket dropped onto my bed and he left.

my sheet, making these huge loops that crossed over each other and it just felt so free.

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I think I was four years old and my parents had put me to bed and the last time he bent over the ballpoint pen from his pocket dropped onto my bed and he left. And I had this ballpoint pen in my chubby little hand and I started scribbling all over my sheet, making these huge loops that crossed over each other and it just felt so free.

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You're like drawing circles in the air. It's like, can you describe a spiral staircase without going like this or a goatee without touching your chin. This is the Lonely Palette, the podcast that returns art history to the masses

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