BonusEp. 0.2 - Tamar Avishai interviews Dan Byers, Director of Harvard's Carpenter Center

Tamar met Dan when she was a worshipful high school freshman and he
was (to her) an übercool junior who was not only the arts editor of
Thoughtprints, the school's art/lit mag, but also spent his free
time in the fine art studio, bending the charcoal like Beckmann.
Now he's the Director of the Carpenter Center of Visual Arts at
Harvard University, she's an art history podcaster, and they
reconnected in the Busch-Reisinger galleries in front of Max
Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in a Tuxedo" from 1927 to talk about
self-portraiture, self-evolution, and the limitations of peaking in
high school. [00:17] - Describing the painting. [02:35] - What drew
Dan to the painting as a teenager. [06:16] - The ephemera of the
cigarette. [08:17] - Self-portraits in high school. [09:25] -
Drawing in thick, expressive lines. [11:35] - The self-portrait
that doesn't need our validation. [15:19] - Beckmann isn’t Egon
Schiele [18:58] - Dan's evolving relationship with this painting.
[21:58] - Thoughtprints! Full transcript:
http://www.thelonelypalette.com/dan-byers-interview Music used: The
Blue Dot Sessions, "Greyleaf Willow"