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.

Hollow Point

In which Jennifer Kabat learns to rock a Glock. Continue reading

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Ennial Fever

Jennifer Kabat visits the Whitney Biennial and New Museum Triennial — which happen at the same time — and tries to figure out what’s up with art today. A lot, it seems. Continue reading

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Thomas Kinkade, Conceptual Genius. For Real.

In which Jennifer Kabat likens Thomas Kinkade to Hirst, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Jeff Koons. Continue reading

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