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Jed Perl (born 1951) is an American art critic based in New York City. Perl is the art critic of record for The New Republic and the author of several books. He teaches at the New School for Social Research and chairs the board of the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation.
Career
Perl initially trained as a painter. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[1] He decided to devote himself fully to criticism in the mid-1980s. "In my twenties I was very involved in making art as well as writing about art," he said an interview, "but in the early 80s I came to what I guess I would describe as a fork in the road, and around 1985 I just decided to stop painting. A lot of people were not that surprised, they felt that’s where I was going.[2]
Afterward Perl became one of the early art critics at The New Criterion. From there he went on to editorial appointments at Art and Antiques, Salamagundi, Vogue, and Modern Painters before joining The New Republic in 1994. [1]
- ^ a b Perl, Jed (2006). New Art City: Mid-Century in Manhattan. New York: Random House. p. 6. ISBN 9780307538888. Cite error: The named reference "New Art City" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Faculty Interview: Jed Perl, Liberal Studies". Canon: The Interdisciplinary Journal of The New School for Social Research. Spring 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2014.