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.

Not A Drop To Drink

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Living in the Catskills can feel like a colonial territory belonging to NYC. Jennifer Kabat looks at what the city does in pursuit of clean water. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Arena, Catskills, clean water act, DEP, John Burroughs, Lenape, Margaretville, New York City, NYC watershed, Pepacton Reservoir, Shavertown | 6 Comments

Not Enough…

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

After the Hurricane, so much art has been lost among everything else. Jennifer Kabat looks at how other communities have responded to art and disasters — Katrina, Irene and AIDS. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Frieze, Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Sandy, Jerry Saltz, Luc Tuymans, Marlene McCarty, Nancy Barton, prattsville | 63 Comments

The Pigeon on the Path of the Novel’s Two Paths and Zadie Smith’s “NW”

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In which Jennifer Kabat takes on Zadie Smith’s Two Paths for the Novel and NW and engages in the fight between realism and the avant-garde. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Craig Taylor, Duchamp, Joseph O'Neill, Londoners, Netherland, NW, Remainder, Sam Byers, The New Museum Triennial, Tom McCarthy, Two Paths for the Novel, Zadie Smith | 29 Comments

Wilting Powers & Surface Majesties – Michelle Lopez, Feminism and Minimalism

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Skateboards and car crashes, speed and glinting surfaces, Michelle Lopez’s sculpture plumbs minimalism and feminism. Continue reading →

Posted in Sundays in the Part with Art | Tagged Eva Hesse, feminism, John Chamberlain, John McCracken, Judy Chicago, Michelle Lopez, minimalism, Sheila Pepe, Simon Preston Gallery, skateboards | Leave a comment

Queen Anne’s Lace and The President of the United States

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Jennifer Kabat gets personal (and political) on the War on Women and her choices on choice. Not to mention, collecting Queen Anne’s Lace to preserve them. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged abortion, ann keenan, choice, ERA, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Planned Parenthood, queen anne's lace, rafalca, Richard Nixon, right to choose, roe V wade, Todd Akin, war on women | 5 Comments

Michelle Segre: Transmissions from a Land Once Upon a Time

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Michelle Segre takes the dark, the weird and the humble and makes it monumental or anti-monumental. It feels a bit like Joann Craft on acid. Continue reading →

Posted in Sundays in the Part with Art | Tagged Derek Eller Gallery, Eva Hesse, Michelle Segre, Roberta Smith, The Brooklyn Rail, Time Life Science, Watts Towers | Leave a comment

Die Laughing: AIDS 30 Years On

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

30 years after the discovery of AIDS and 25 years after the founding of ACT UP, Jennifer Kabat writes about the disease and the documentary How To Survive A Plague. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged ACT UP, AIDS, Andrew O'Hehir, Avram Finkelstein, David France, Gran fury, How To Survive A Plague, Jeff Koons, Jeff Stryker, Jesse Helms, Marlene McCarty, Peter Staley, Venice Biennale, William Dannemayer | 4 Comments