What was your first job as a journalist?
Arteviste.com
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. I have no nostalgia for them either.
How is social media changing news?
Social media is often nothing more than premature ejaculation.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
None
What does it mean to be a journalist?
You are contributing to the history of ideas, using rigorous analysis of facts.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email explanations with images, if possible.
What's your favorite social network?
Instagram, the preferred social network in the visual arts
Who do you wish followed you?
People interested in the "ideas of art," and not the social whirl of money and celebrity.
Why did you become a journalist?
There was and is an need to have art historical knowledge and genuine (tested) business expertise to lend credibility to the art community.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Several books.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Develop genuine subject matter expertise.
When's the best time to pitch you?
By email, 24/7.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Duchamp / Koons at Museo Jumex, Mexico.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
There is no worst, but there are a lot of mediocre and non-newsworthy ideas pitched.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
At another computer.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The New York Times.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That art and culture somehow correlate with taste and wealth
