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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