Peter Frank

Peter Frank (b. 1950, New York) is an art critic, curator, and poet who has been one of the most prolific and respected voices in American art writing for over half a century. The son of NBC News president Reuven Frank, he earned his BA and MA in art history at Columbia University and began his career in 1970s New York, writing criticism for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News while moving in circles associated with the Fluxus movement and curating shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He moved to Los Angeles in 1988, where he became a defining chronicler of the city's art life: longtime critic for the LA Weekly, editor of Visions Art Quarterly and THEmagazine Los Angeles, critic for Angeleno and the Huffington Post, and Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum. He has organized exhibitions for Documenta, the Venice Biennale, and the Museo Reina Sofía, and his essay "Plural Isms: California Art and Artists of the Mid- to Late 1970s" for MOCA's Under the Big Black Sun catalogue stands as a key account of the very period this film explores. He continues to write for publications worldwide.