Peter Plagens is an American art critic, painter and novelist. From 1989 until 2003 Plagens was a senior writer and art critic for Newsweek. As a novelist Plagens is the author of Time for Robo {1999 Black Heron Press ISBN 0930773543} and The Art Critic which was and is serialized online at artnet. As a painter he has been represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York.
He lived and worked in California after graduating from the University of Southern California. Plagens wrote Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast in 1974. He has lived in New York for many years. He writes about art for the Wall Street Journal and for ArtForum magazine.
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