The Lives of Contemporary Artists

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Podcast#26 31.05.2018 9:59 ↓

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.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 25 11.05.2018 10:27 ↓

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.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 24 26.04.2018 8:50 ↓

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.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 23 06.04.2018 9:18 ↓

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.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 22 16.03.2018 6:27 ↓

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

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 21 27.02.2018 6:41 ↓

The beauty of brevity and its cultural implications are barely touched upon in this brief and superficial episode

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 20 12.02.2018 9:05 ↓

Our search for significance follows a banal path of shocking predictability. Is there a remedy for our lack of gravitas? ...

Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 19 02.02.2018 8:16 ↓

Can disruption and innovation serve two masters in this age of commodified ideas? Is there still a reason to care?

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 15 (revised) 02.02.2018 9:24 ↓

Tina Black sits in for her husband Timmy and offers a uniquely feminist perspective on the Lives of Contemporary Artists

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 18 29.01.2018 8:00 ↓

The grand subject - Death and Immortality - are tackled and tickled while lesser themes go toying with our emotions.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 17 14.01.2018 6:02 ↓

Uncovering formally marginalized women artists is the subject of this extremely timely and important podcast

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 16 03.01.2018 9:50 ↓

A New Year's list not to be missed!!

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 14 27.12.2017 7:18 ↓

Cults of self-absorption and their intersection with artistic genius in the life of the Cuban master, Micah Carpentier

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode13 22.12.2017 8:40 ↓

Why artists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, insist that they are somehow special.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 12 20.12.2017 6:47 ↓

Reggae meets the Renaissance where we meet an odd watercolorist, adrift but nonetheless prolific.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 11 18.12.2017 8:19 ↓

Where the private thoughts of a famous artist no longer remain private.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 10 16.12.2017 7:43 ↓

Here we digress into an examination of The Wives of Contemporary Artists

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 9 12.12.2017 5:30 ↓

The story of the recently deceased LGBTQ intellectual icon, Raimonda Modi!

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 8 11.12.2017 5:55 ↓

The story of how Los Angeles became a hotbed of artistic innovation!!

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 7 07.12.2017 5:00 ↓

Art takes curious turns when produced under the yoke of authoritarian curators.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 6 06.12.2017 5:09 ↓

Art and ethics. Are they compatible?

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 5 06.12.2017 5:25 ↓

Conditions for success in today's art world.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists - Episode 4 05.12.2017 6:57 ↓

Gossip or character assassination, this profile of French artist Currado Malaspina sounds like a pack of lies.

The Lives of Contemporary Artists: Episode 3 30.11.2017 4:45 ↓

A short introduction to the career of French artist, Currado Malaspina

The Lives of Contemporary Artists - episode 2 21.11.2017 5:52 ↓

Where Los Angeles artist David Schoffman meets an unlikely kindred spirit - the Cuban master Micah Carpentier