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.
The Argentine author’s new short story collection, written in the wake of economic collapse, depict women finding pleasure in unexpected circumstances
What a garden’s lowliest plants can teach us about resistance to capitalism and patriarchy
The artist’s far-seeing experiments with digital avatars and viral antibodies help us better understand ourselves
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
Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once
‘Inside the cemetery, hundreds of names descend in chronological order, but time’s forward motion clearly does not signify progress here’
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
Featuring Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Womanhouse’ marks the 30th anniversary of the museum dedicated to women artists
How Ellen Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting
On Stellar Rays, New York, USA
Although their activities and missions are multiple, the foundations dedicated to New York’s artists all keep their founders’ visions alive
How Colleen Asper's paintings challenge traditional representations of the body
A year of protest, power and people, from L.A. Kauffman to Kerry James Marshall
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
Looking forward to Nancy Holt, David Horvitz and Eileen Myles
Alchemy, travel and the essay
Abrons Art Center & Bruce High Quality Foundation University Gallery, New York, USA
How a sense of the local shapes art in the US
The art of tiny revelations
