Richard Speer

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Richard Speer is an American author and journalist. Since 2002, Speer has been an art critic at The Willamette Week, a Portland, Oregon alternative weekly newspaper.

Career

Until 2001, Speer worked as a news writer, editor, and producer for WESH-TV (Orlando), WHLT-TV (Hattiesburg, Mississippi), WJTV (Jackson, Mississippi), and KFSM-TV (Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas).

Speer's essays, art reviews, and feature articles have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, ARTnews, Art Ltd., Opera News, and The Los Angeles Times. His feature reports have earned four first-place awards and two second-place awards from The Associated Press and a first-place award from The Society of Professional Journalists.[citation needed]

Speer is the author of the 2005 biography of outsider artist Matt Lamb, Matt Lamb: The Art of Success, published by John Wiley & Sons.

References

  • ARTnews (Summer 2005) "Art Talk: Lamb's Chops"
  • Chicago Sun-Times (October 2, 2005) "Sunday Lunch with Matt Lamb" By Debra Pickett
  • Speer, R. (2005) Matt Lamb: The Art of Success, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-71154-3

External links

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