Biography
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 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.
Plagens has lived in New York for many years. He writes about art for the Wall Street Journal and for ArtForum magazine.