Peter Plagens

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1941 –

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Who is Peter Plagens?

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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Born
1941
Dayton
Education
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Southern California

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on July 23, 2013

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