HiatusEp 0.2 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Open Source

The Lonely Palette

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

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The Lonely Palette is on break until November 2019, so every Wednesday in October, a different Hub & Spoke producer will take the host's chair to present an episode of their show that Tamar is especially fond of. Enjoy this month's podcast petri dish of art, culture, history, and society, and subscribe to any and all Hub & Spoke shows at www.hubspokeaudio.org. This week: Open Source with Christopher Lydon is a local conversation with global attitude. "The Bauhaus in Your House," which originally aired on 90.9 WBUR in April 2019, is an exploration of art, architecture, and design with Tamar Avishai, Peter Chermayeff, Ann Beha, and Sebastian Smee. The Bauhaus was the art school in Germany that created the look of the twentieth century. We just live in it: loving its white-box affordability, or hating its stripped, blank, glass-and-steel uniformity, the world around. It’s the IKEA look in the twenty-first century, the look of Chicago skyscrapers and now Chinese housing towers, the look of American kitchens and probably the typeface on your emails. It was the less-is-more school that made ornament very nearly a crime. It stood, and stands, for a few big ideas still hotly contested. Listen to Open Source at www.radioopensource.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. Next week: The Constant and Michelangelo Listen to The Lonely Palette archives! www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes Support The Lonely Palette! www.patreon.com/lonelypalette

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0:00.0	I'm Christopher Leiden, host of Open Source, and today the fill-in guest host of The Lonely
0:06.0	Pallet, while Tamar is on hiatus.
0:08.9	We've just recently joined forces with Tamar in the Hub-N-Spoke Alliance, and we wanted to introduce ourselves to you
0:16.0	with this recent episode of Open Source, in which Tama and I had the pleasure of conspiring.
0:22.2	From the Museum of Fine Arts to the Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts,
0:26.8	to the studios at W-B-U-R in Boston, we're exploring the less is more aesthetic of Germany's Bauhaus on its 100th anniversary.
0:37.0	And I'm thrilled to share this episode with all you art connoisseurs one painting at a time out there in podcast land. We loved working together.
0:47.0	Hub and Spokes. Audio Collective. I'm Christopher Lighten. This is open source.
0:57.0	Bow House, meaning building House, was the name of the most influential art school in the history of the man-made environment.
1:10.0	It was born just a hundred years ago in Weymah, Germany's old-time cultural capital,
1:14.9	seat of the shaky Weymah Republic after World War I.
1:18.4	Bowhouse, the school, lasted only 14 years, till Hitler's Nazis suffocated it in 1933.
1:25.6	Yet Bauhaus, the model of design, some would say,
1:29.4	has ruled the world for a century now.
1:32.1	Less is more Bauhaus, seedbed of modernism, signature of a brilliantly austere
1:37.7	taste in everything. We make our own soft landing this hour in the Bauhaus realm, at the house outside Boston
1:45.4	that the Bauhaus founder, Walter Gropius, built for himself at the start of his second lifetime
1:51.6	in America. We're on a hillside in Lincoln, Massachusetts, half a mile
1:56.1	from Walden Pond. The Gropia's house from 1938 is pure Bow house in that driving up, wonder is this the house or the giant white cardboard
2:06.6	carton the house was delivered in the shock on entering is the warmfy, modest feeling of natural materials, like to cork floors, and then
2:17.0	the light passing through.
2:19.5	Wendy Hubbard walked us in. It's in. It's a...
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