Ep. 28 - Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece" (1964)

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Yoko Ono. You may have heard of her. She hooked up with that musician that time. Just under the wire, we end Women's History Month with a peek beneath Ono's art and reputation - and why we need to reconsider both. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2018/3/29/episode-28-yoko-onos-cut-piece-1964 Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Plaster Combo", "Valantis", "Strange Dog Walk", "Hundred Mile", "Down at the Bank"" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees" Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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0:00.0	Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective.
0:09.0	This episode is brought to you by the podcast Empty Frames. In the early morning hours of March 18th,
0:15.5	1990, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, Our Fair City,
0:21.0	fell victim to the most audacious art heist in modern history.
0:25.8	In 81 minutes, two thieves dressed as policemen made off with 13 pieces of art with an estimated
0:32.2	value of half a billion dollars.
0:35.0	Works by Vermeer, Dega and Rembrandt were stripped from their frames.
0:40.4	Kills me.
0:41.6	Never to be seen by the public again.
0:44.0	And deep within the criminal underground,
0:46.0	theories of their whereabouts and those who perpetrated the heist
0:49.1	are abundant.
0:50.7	In empty frames, hosts Tim and Lance will dive into the case exploring it from all angles,
0:55.0	along with investigators, reporters, art theft experts, and citizens.
1:00.0	They will paint their own portrait comprised of the theories and the social and economic impact of the greatest unsolved art heist of all time
1:08.1	Subscribe to empty frames today wherever you get your podcasts
1:13.0	Okay hitting play.
1:20.0	So the video opens black and white.
1:23.6	Person seems to be repairing Yoko Ono, who's sitting
1:28.8	with her legs folded under her.
1:31.2	Oh, interesting, a woman comes up with a pair of scissors and starts slicing slowly up the left sleeve.
1:38.0	Some people come up and take a little, some take more.
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