is Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies at The New School in New York. He previously taught at Oxford University (in 2002) and was Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome (in 2003). He has been writing about art and the art world for more than thirty years, and has been a leading critic for The New Republic since 1994. He made name with Paris Without End: On French Art Since World War I (1988), Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis (2000), and New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century (2005). Last year, he published Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World. Perl is also a regular contributor to Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, The Yale Review, and Salmagundi. He is married to artist Deborah Rosenthal. [100609]