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.

Death, Dots, Spins and Spots: Damien Hirst at Tate Modern

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

Diamond dust and money and death – it’s the Damien Hirst retrospective at the Tate Modern. Consumption is very conspicuous. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Cultural Olympiad, Damien Hirst, Nichola Serota, Peter Marino, Tate Modern, The Daily Mail, Vermeer | 2 Comments

Notes From Bovina: Shock and Awe

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

How does a poet and art critic, that would be Peter Schjeldahl perhaps the shyest man on earth, become a pyro? Jennifer Kabat finds out in Bovina, NY. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged 7 Days magazine, Adam Horovitz, Alan Cumming, Amy Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Bovina New York, fireworks, Julianne Moore, Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin, The New York Observer, the New Yorker | Leave a comment

L’Enfant Terrible, or, The Politics of Youth in DC

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In which Jennifer Kabat ponders the weirdness of growing up in and around Washington, DC – from nuclear secrets to Veep’s kids and loving Amy Carter. Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Amy Carter, Dana Meese, Gerald Ford, Imelda Marcos, JFK, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, LBJ, McGovern, Nuclear Secrets, Q Clearance, Sidney McCain, The Mondales, Thomas Eagleton, Washington DC | Comments Off

My Favorite Marxist

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In which Jennifer Kabat finds the true meaning of Marx in a New York strip club and a Vegas bone yard. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged Althusser, Das Kapital, Karl Marx, Las Vegas, leaving Las Vegas, nakedness, New York strip clubs, stripper poles, the commodity fetish | Leave a comment

Notes From Bovina: Hayhenge

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In which Jennifer Kabat judges hay-bale art with New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl and waxes rhapsodic about a place named Bovina. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | Tagged Bovina New York, Farming Bovina, hayhenge, Jean Kormos, Mr ED, Peter Schjeldahl, steve burnett, Walter R Brooks | Leave a comment

Acid House, The Police Protest and The Politics of Dancing: Jeremy Deller’s London

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

In London, police policed police. Not a mile away, the artist Jeremy Deller was, appropriately, having a career mini-retrospective. Jennifer Kabat was there. Continue reading →

Posted in The Arts | 28 Comments

Sade, Sluts and Rush

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Jennifer Kabat

What do Rush Limbaugh and the Marquis de Sade have in common? Not as much as you’d think, as Jennifer Kabat explains. Continue reading →

Posted in Sex | Tagged Angela Carter, Juliette, Justine, Marquis de Sade, Nina Turner, Rush Limbaugh, Santorum sex, sluts, stripping, The Sadeian Woman | Comments Off