Timmy Black Presents: The Lives of Contemporary Artists

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.

Painting may not be dead but it is definitely on life-support. This grand tradition isn't getting any help from two unconventional artists who use language in very provocative ways.

Timmy Black has, for once, done his homework. Hear how obscure artists and their powerful stories compete with the giants of the conventional historical narrative.

Professor and performance artist Oreastia Shestov shatters the glass soapbox with her maximalist Minimalism.