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Jennifer Kabat

Jennifer Kabat is a writer. She teaches at The New School, New York, USA, and on the MFA Art Writing programme, School of Visual Arts, New York. 

Édouard Louis’s A Woman’s Battles and Transformations and Lynne Tillman’s Mothercare both look at the struggles of their mothers through the socioeconomics lens of caregiving

BY Jennifer Kabat | 25 AUG 22

The Argentine author’s new short story collection, written in the wake of economic collapse, depict women finding pleasure in unexpected circumstances  

BY Jennifer Kabat | 29 APR 21

What a garden’s lowliest plants can teach us about resistance to capitalism and patriarchy

BY Jennifer Kabat | 23 MAR 21

The artist’s far-seeing experiments with digital avatars and viral antibodies help us better understand ourselves

BY Jennifer Kabat | 28 JUL 20

In Buffalo, the artist Marlene McCarty has planted a toxic garden that draws on the area’s intertwined histories of capitalism, expropriation and utopian dreaming

BY Jennifer Kabat | 23 OCT 19

Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once

BY Jennifer Kabat | 22 SEP 19

‘Inside the cemetery, hundreds of names descend in chronological order, but time’s forward motion clearly does not signify progress here’

BY Jennifer Kabat | 04 FEB 19

The US writer and filmmaker has created new paths for arts writing and critical thinking, not from wielding a cudgel but by exposing our bruises

BY Jennifer Kabat | 17 OCT 18

Featuring Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Womanhouse’ marks the 30th anniversary of the museum dedicated to women artists

BY Jennifer Kabat | 10 SEP 18

How Ellen Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting

BY Jennifer Kabat | 14 AUG 17

On Stellar Rays, New York, USA

BY Jennifer Kabat | 06 JUN 17

Although their activities and missions are multiple, the foundations dedicated to New York’s artists all keep their founders’ visions alive

BY Jennifer Kabat | 07 MAY 17

How Colleen Asper's paintings challenge traditional representations of the body

BY Jennifer Kabat | 15 FEB 17

A year of protest, power and people, from L.A. Kauffman to Kerry James Marshall

BY Jennifer Kabat | 09 DEC 16

Ahead of her upcoming solo show at the Whitney Museum in New York, Sophia Al-Maria talks shopping malls, war, climate change and Gulf futurism

BY Jennifer Kabat | 03 MAY 16

Looking forward to Nancy Holt, David Horvitz and Eileen Myles

BY Jennifer Kabat | 21 APR 16

Alchemy, travel and the essay

BY Jennifer Kabat | 24 SEP 15

Abrons Art Center & Bruce High Quality Foundation University Gallery, New York, USA

BY Jennifer Kabat | 19 AUG 15

How a sense of the local shapes art in the US

BY Jennifer Kabat | 24 APR 15