Peter Plagens

Peter Plagens, art critic for Newsweek, is the author of Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-70 and the novel Time for Robo, among other works. He is also a painter.

Currently

  • Whose Art Is It Anyway?

    October 12, 2006

    Two books on art controversies and arts funding in America explore how and when taxpayer money can be used to support public art.

  • The Body Artist

    May 11, 2006 Subscribe

    Two biographies of Thomas Eakins reveal the art world's attitudes about the painter's bodily obsessions: Was he a curious innocent, a brilliant anatomist or a dirty old man?

2005

  • The Look of Truth

    December 8, 2005 Subscribe

    Photographs are supposed to be unbiased recognitions of reality, but they're really self-portraits of the photographer. The Ongoing Movement, a blend of biography and analysis, examines what happens when photographers create deliberately untruthful pictures.

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» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
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» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
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