- 162
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 1,281
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About The Lonely Palette
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.
- Publisher
- Tamar Avishai
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 May 2016
- Latest episode
- 11 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 162 episodes have a transcript.
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 72: Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" (1945)
23 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 71: Looking Back on 10 Years of The Lonely Palette (with Julie Shapiro)
7 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
TLP Interview with Helena De Groot, Audio Producer and Sound Artist
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Episode 72: Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" (1945)
Published 11 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What's more, Iwo Jima is also legally part of the prefecture of Tokyo, despite being located about 750 miles away. Capturing Iwo Jima, which the U.S. made the decision to do in late 1944 under the codename Operation Detachment, would mean not only disabling the Japanese warning system, but also, symbolically, getting troops on the ground in Tokyo, so to speak. It would mean, finally, a proper victory on the soil of the Japanese home islands, and hopefully the beginning of the end. Naturally, that meant that Iwo Jima was fortified to the teeth. Japanese generals knew they'd never be able to hold the island if Americans actually made an amphibious assault, but they would still prepare to take down as many American soldiers as they could. […]
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- Julie Shapiro
- Helena De Groot
- Dr Lara Ayad
- Erica Heilman
- Jay Allison
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 881 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 400 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100
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- Quality
- 82
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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