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.

Marlene McCarty – What Lies Between the Lines

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

PUSSY – BEAVER – CUNT. This was the first I remember of Marlene McCarty’s art– words, shocking ones at that, the sort of language hurled at women on the street, the words used to take power and show who has … Continue reading →

Posted in Sundays in the Part with Art | Tagged ACT UP, drawing, Gran fury, Great Apes, Marlene McCarty, Marlene Olive, parricide | 1 Comment

Blowing in the Wind, Massoud Hassani’s Mine Clearer

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Massoud Hassani lost his toys to mine fields as a child. As an adult he took matters into his own hands and designed something like his toys to solve the problem. Continue reading →

Posted in Sundays in the Part with Art | Tagged afghanistan, deminer, Design Academy Eindhoven, land mines, massoud hassani, Mine Kafon, MoMA | Leave a comment

Hurricane Irene and Mike Kelley’s Ghost

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Hurricane Irene nearly destroyed Prattsville; now art is part of the solution. Jennifer Kabat looks at how the town is now changing the Art World’s perception of itself. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Alex McQuilkin, Carrie Pollock, Damien Davis, Hurricane Irene, James Woodward, Jonathan Wang, Marisa Mandler, Michelle Rikard Petricini, nadja Marcin, Nancy A Barton, NYU, Paco Marcial, Prattsville Art Workshops, Prattsville NY, the Catskills | 4 Comments

Sex And The City Season 37, AKA Bravo’s Gallery Girls

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

It’s easy to hate Gallery Girls, reductive, formulaic, vapid, sad, rich and at its heart? Something even sadder perhaps. What we trade when we trade in our longing. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged amy poliakoff, angela pham, bravo, chantal chadwick, claudia martinez reardon, eli klein, gallery girls, kerri lisa, liz margulies, maggie schaffer, marty margulies | 3 Comments

40 Years of Running with Exotic Animals

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Men used to think if women ran the marathon, their uteruses would fall out. Now the discussion of uteruses has moved onto politics and women instead get to rock the sports. No wonder Jennifer Kabat loves the Olympics. Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged Boston Marathon, Equal Rights Amendment, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Kathrine Switzer, Marlen Esparza, Olympics, Rep Mike Kelly, Richard Nixon, Roberta Gibb, Title IX, women's marathon, Zoe Smith | 1 Comment

Ghosts in the Museum: Dawn Kasper and Mark Dion

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Jennifer Kabat looks at art, looking at life and commenting on science and how things (even very ordinary ones) can change how we look at the world. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged David Zwirner, Dawn Kasper, Jay Sanders, Liz Collins, Mark Dion, Stephen Clark, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Sterling Clark, Whitney Biennial | Leave a comment

Knitting as Performance, Flying the Flag with Liz Collins

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Liz Collins knits and as she does unspools meaning. Flags, identity, craft vs mass. All come under her watchful eye. Continue reading →

Posted in Sundays in the Part with Art | Tagged Governors Island, ICA, Knitting Nation, Liz Collins, Pride Flag, providence, The Muster | Leave a comment