The Lives of Contemporary Artists

Timmy takes some time to trim some insurgent bristles while rediscovering his early, crude attempts at podcasting.

Though his face is masked, his mouth is working overtime. Timmy tells us how artists are responding to the global pandemic.

Timmy, insulated even more deeply than usual, shares a modest prophecy.

Timmy responds with uncharacteristic thoughtfulness to our new precarious present. (kinda)

Timmy finds an artist who can awaken the Golem within while oddly stirring our senses into reluctant self-congratulation. Find here the inspiring story of a true contemporary alchemist!

Timmy tosses his plugged nickel into the current political soup in this penetrating analysis of the upcoming 2020 presidential election.

Find out why Gaius Maecenas had an adjective named after him in Timmy's tale of beneficence and belligerence.

Timmy's career takes an unexpected turn after a fortuitous encounter with a messenger of the Lord.

Timmy shows no fear as he tackles one of the art world's most sacred palette pushers - the titan of the delicate tonality, the Los Angeles legend, the formally untouchable and inscrutable painter, David Schoffman

In our annual end-of-year episode, Timmy invites his family to share their thoughts on the unstable state of something resembling art.

Timmy takes to airing some fairly soiled briefs in public as he try to devote some time to the lost passion of geography.

Some artists go to great lengths to polish their credentials and burnish their brand. Timmy talks of one such specimen whose CV is extremely hard to beat.

Find out how you can get a Zabar's Brunch Basket sent to you courtesy of Timmy Black and The Plausible Deniability Project™!

Timmy's search for the sources of creativity are strangely sidetracked by his ranking of today's best living painters. (How can someone be SO wrong while being SO right at the same time?)

Apologies can be vacant and insincere and one suspects that Timmy Black is a sublime master of the form. In this episode the great philosophers are invoked in order to puff the 'contrite' chest of this virtuoso buffoon.

According to Timmy Black, the intersection of art and technology is an arranged marriage, void of romance but full of neat little gadgets!

Timmy inadvertently reveals the real source of his motivation with this moving piece of unsubstantiated gossip

The rage for inclusion and the noble cult of diversity has never been far from the Timmy Black agenda. In this episode we examine an under-represented artistic constituency and find a few rare gems on the way.

Timmy continues to pursue his dogged crusade for the inclusion of heretofore neglected geniuses into the canon of art history. In this episode he includes new, astounding details about the life and work of Faun Roberts.

In our most controversial episode to date, Timmy introduces the brilliant feminist art historian Orestia Shestov and her special form of militant advocacy. Roberts is the foremost authority on little known American expatriate painter Faun Roberts. Find out here about yet another marginalized genius!

In a state of reckless and inebriated professional disloyalty Timmy decides to expose the art world's most closely guarded secret!

Timmy losses his way as he rhapsodizes on stale romances and erstwhile lovers. There seems to be a point to all this, though like many previous episodes, the point seems lost in the telling. We recommend that TLoCA #55 be listened to with very good headphones either in the bath or on public transportation.

Despite his obvious ethical shortcomings, Timmy reluctantly finds himself in the position of "Thought Leader." Never one to shirk a responsibility, our formally carefree podcaster exercises his newfound authority with both good cheer and good advice.

In the current episode Timmy talks about the perils of California Affirmative Vibrations (CAV). He's quick to point out that in the hands of a decent artist, the regional mellow good cheer (RMGC) can serve as an effective counterpoint. Fiber/Performance artist Kella Shiv is such an artist. Reviewing her latest exhibition, Intermediate Porn, Timmy sheds new light on a few tired ideas.

In which Timmy indulges in a short meditation on how artists need to value all manner of quixotic and improbable financial schemes.