Peter Plagens is a painter who's shown with the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City since 1974, and was the staff art critic for Newsweek (1989-2003), where he is now Contributing Editor. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Arts Journalism Program. His paintings were the subject of a retrospective first shown at the Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA in 2004, then traveling to Columbia College of Art in Chicago, IL and The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH in 2005. Plagens is the author of two books of art criticism: Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-70 (University of California Press, 2000) and Moonlight Blues: An Artist's Art Criticism (UMI Research Press, 1986)-as well as a novel, Time for Robo (Black Heron Press, 1999). He lives in New York City with his wife, the painter Laurie Fendrich.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, a Los Angeles-based art critic and journalist, writes about art, design and architecture. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, her first book and the most definitive biography of the artist to date, was published by W.W. Norton in September, 2004. Her most recent book, Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s, was published in 2011 by Henry Holt and Company and was on the L.A. Times bestseller list in the non-fiction category for twelve weeks. Also, it was chosen by the L.A. Public Library Association as one of the best books of 2011.

Drohojowska-Philp's monographs include the text for Modernism Rediscovered, the three-volume set of architectural photographs by Julius Shulman published by Taschen in the fall of 2007; the text for Pedro Guerrero, a book of his photographs published by Cattletrack Press in 2009. Her text for Sensual Mechanical, a monograph of the work of Craig Kauffman will be published by Frank Lloyd Gallery in 2012. She has written catalogue essays on the work of many contemporary artists including John Baldessari, Alexis Smith, Robert Graham and Craig Kauffman.

She is a weekly contributor to Arttalk on KCRW radio, 89.9, and regularly writes for Artnet, ArtNews, and The Los Angeles Times. Over the years, she has written for Art in America, Artforum, Art and Auction, Architectural Digest and many other magazines. She has been involved in a variety of radio and television programs and was the L.A. Weekly's first art critic.

From 1987 to 1996, Drohojowska-Philp was chair of the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Otis College of Art and Design. She lectures on modern and contemporary art and in March, 2003 was honored by the International Association of Art Critics in being asked to deliver what was then called the "Clement Greenberg lecture." She is listed in Who's Who in American Art and is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and The Authors Guild