Jed Perl lecture April 1 in LDSOA

He is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome and the Leon Levy Biography Center at the City University of New York.

Perl takes on a variety of cultural malefactors in his books and essays, from critiques of the annual art fairs around the world, to the demise of the Detroit Institute of Arts to the developing synonymous relationship between "art market" and "art world."

"(A)nybody who begins to speak about the importance of high culture in a democratic society or who wants to make some critical distinctions between high culture and popular culture, is likely to be met by skeptical looks, as if there were something unacceptable about even the possibility of such a discussion," Perl writes in the introduction to Magicians and Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture.

I get to spend some time with him today, something I've looked forward to for a while. The lecture tomorrow should be fun. See. You. There.