Art Critic
Jed Perl has been the art critic for The New Republic since 1994. His books include Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis, Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World, and New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century, which in 2005 was an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book. Mr. Perl is currently a Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies at The New School in New York City. He was the first Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome in 2003 and gave a Slade Lecture at Oxford University in 2002. For a decade before coming to The New Republic, Mr. Perl was the art critic for Vogue. He has written for many publications, including Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, Salmagundi, and The Yale Review, has lectured at museums and universities across the country, has spoken frequently on NPR, and has appeared on the Charlie Rose show. He is currently working on the first full-length biography of the American sculptor Alexander Calder, to be published by Knopf.
