Author Archives: Jennifer Kabat

About Jennifer Kabat

A recent finalist for Notting Hill Editions’ Essay Prize, Jennifer Kabat (@jenkabat) is working on a book called Growing Up Modern, exploring art, ideology and the landscape from the modernist suburb where she grew up to the Western Catskills where she lives now. She’s been awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism and teaches at NYU. She contributes to BOMB, The Believer and Frieze and was once an editor at the legendary style magazine The Face in London.

Stealing Beauty: Assessing the Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts

How to assess the value of the Detroit Institute of Arts? The week Christie’s is hired for the job, Jennifer Kabat offers her take on the city’s most valuable asset. Continue reading

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Pretty On The Inside

Jennifer Sirey’s experiments with science and bacteria make some of the most compelling and disturbing art today. Jennifer Kabat considers them and how women push the boundaries of art today. Continue reading

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The Angel’s Share – Searching for Whisky. Or Truth. Or Both. Part III

From whisky’s own Enron back to Campbeltown and how it became scotch’s ghost town in Part III of Jennifer Kabat’s series on whisky. Continue reading

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Politics, Protest and Shopping Malls: 17 Days in Taksim Square

Jennifer Kabat’s Q&A with Gökhan Karakuş, an Istanbul-based architecture critic, on the events and context of the protests at Gezi Park and Taksim Square. Continue reading

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The Angel’s Share – Searching for Whisky. Or Truth. Or Both. Part II

Take an American aphid, an English PM (just out of his teens) and a British queen, add to that a Madoff-style scandal (boom, bubble and bust) and you have the makings of today’s single malt. So Jennifer Kabat finds. Continue reading

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The Angel’s Share – Searching for Whisky. Or Truth. Or Both. Part I

In the lost city of whisky, the one-time whisky capital Campbeltown, Jennifer Kabat goes in search of scotch in the first of a 3-part series on the spirit. Continue reading

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The Dream of the 90s: Where Did All The Anger Go? 1993 at the New Museum

Haunted by the past, Jennifer Kabat takes on the New Museum’s 1993 show and examines the era’s disappearance and recent reappearance in the art world Continue reading

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