Welcome to the online home of Richard Speer, author of the biography Matt Lamb:  The Art of Success (John Wiley & Sons), short fiction, and a forthcoming novel.

Richard's articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Opera News, Art, Ltd., Visual Art Source, GLASS Quarterly, and Digital Photo Pro.

As contributing critic for ARTnews he has reviewed shows in New York, San Francisco, Palm Desert, Santa Fe, Miami, Saint Petersburg, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, covering artists such as Sam Gilliam, Roger Ballen, and Janet Malcolm.  Since 2002 he has been visual arts critic at Portland, Oregon's Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly, Willamette Week.  He has authored catalogue essays about Jun Kaneko, Eva Hild, Henry Hillman, Jr., Joe Thurston, and other notable contemporary artists.

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A former television news reporter now working in print, Richard has won accolades from The Associated Press and The Society of Professional Journalists for his profiles of Philip Glass, Luciano Pavarotti, Camille Paglia, E. Fay Jones, and Barbara Branden.  He lectures on cultural issues and has appeared as a talk radio guest on KRLA (Los Angeles), WJR (Detroit), KBOO (Portland), and WUCF (Orlando).

If these achievements leave you cold and you would rather ogle Richard and his out-of-control friends disturbing the peace in Portland, Oregon, then click here, you shameless philistine.  For photos of Richard ensconced with celebrities, politicians, and the one and only Richard Simmons, click here.  To see photographs taken by Richard, click here.  To email Richard, click here.