Timmy Black Presents: The Lives of Contemporary Artists

Timmy talks about the important and controversial performance diva, Kella Shiv and her profound influence upon the southern California art scene. Her generous attitude toward her younger contemporaries has made her into a pivotal and essential liaison between emerging artists and the gallerist and collector communities. (Kids: If you're trying to get your work "out there," introduce yourselves to...

Nobody claimed the artist life was an easy path. Some succumb to the pressures. Others adapt with compromises. and then there are the legends! In this episode Timmy tells the tale of creative triumph in the face of unforeseen catastrophe.  

Episode 51, where Timmy, risking his personal dignity and the hard-earned stature of one of today's most influential art podcasters, makes an unexpected, unguarded and slightly absurd request from his listeners.

This unedited episode was released without our consent on an independent platform. Rather than take legal action to suppress the broadcast we have decided to release it ourselves. Be advised that the interview, in its raw, unedited form does not, in any way, reflect the editorial position of our "official" podcast. Thank You - T.B.

What goes through the mind of an art model? Timmy does a little investigating and has uncovered a body of information.

Timmy declares war on our flabby forms of expression and pays tribute to one notable creative warrior.

Only Timmy can draw a connection between gum disease, poetry chapbooks and ocean gazing (and we're not sure how strong a connection it really is).

Timmy announces a terrific and obscure new artist grant of dubious significance!!

The age of amateurism has its advantages and Timmy is determined to find out what they are!

Timmy invites letters from his listeners and really gets an earful!

Timmy softens up and explains why he's grown so emotionally attached to his loyal and loving listeners. This one is a real tear-jerker ...

For the first time ever!! Timmy Black Live!!! In a live recording in front of a devoted audience of relatives and skeptics, Timmy delivers the performance of a lifetime!!

A sentimental tribute to a departed cat and an ode to the virtues of HAPPINESS

Artists may be irrelevant but they stubbornly and consistently situate themselves on the vanguard of the real estate business. Case in point: Southern California.

A visionary glimpse into the wet dream our collective future needn't be an exercise in voluntary disillusion. It can also fill us with swells of optimism! Guess where Timmy Black takes it?

Timmy's love poem to the city of Los Angeles.

To some, Art is something akin to a theology. To  certain artists, devotion to one's work is a sacred rite ..... To others, however, it's an elaborate grift. Timmy asks us all the difficult question: "Which one are you'?

Timmy discusses how sugary baked goods in the shape of rodents can inform the work of our most influential artists. Indeed, the unique Southern California lifestyle remains intimately connected to the rapid development of contemporary art.

The vital importance of networking as a critical component of any artist's toolbox can never be understated. Learn a few useful tips to help boost your career!

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.