The ineffable powers of positive thinking have met their match with host Timmy Black. Can the notoriously skeptical curmudgeon be moved and inspired by motivational speakers? Maybe ...

Is Timmy's contrition sincere? Is "language" a verb? Should art history be revised to include Shaker cabinetry and Borough Park yarmulka crocheting? These and other critical questions are addressed in this timely and timeless episode.

"Identity" today is what rock n' roll was in the fifties! In this powerful and timely episode Timmy Black remembers the amazing Moroccan feminist visionary Sheer Li Mabrouk. If you're not yet familiar with her work ... you should be ...

The business of art is an often neglected yet necessary aspect of one's studio practice. In this episode, Timmy Black shares his valuable insights into commerce and creativity.

The enduring consolations of cheerlessness might seem, on the surface, as an impertinent contradiction but then again, the geography of the world of ideas is mapped in riddles.

What little prestige is still attached to the artists' profession is tenuously held by the thin filaments of flagrant denial. In this episode we discuss how this little bit of humiliating magic works.

The ugly impulse for vengeance is wickedly examined by the normally mild mannered moderator. Listen as Timmy goes for the jugular and proves that while the pen is mightier than the sword, the podcast provides the unkindest cuts of all.

In this age of digital reproduction one is best advised to cover one's tracks. Timmy delves into the tricky issues of originality and how honesty may be receiving an unexpected vindication.

While the general public aspires toward the condition of the creative class, artists, wallowing in the shallows of crippling self-doubt create more than pretty pictures in order to stay somewhat stable.

Love may hurt but there's nothing like heartache to stoke the creative engines. Combine that with naked, shameless ambition and you get art, both timeless and untrustworthy.