Jennifer Kabat

Biography

Jennifer Kabat is an essayist and critic whose writing has appeared in the White Review, the Believer, Frieze, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and has been included in exhibitions such as The Promise at Arnolfini (Bristol UK). Her essay “The Rainmaker’s Flood” was a finalist for the 2015 Notting Hill Editions’ Essay Prize. Awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism, she teaches contemporary art and theory at NYU.

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#VQRTRUESTORY / Fall 2016

To Write About A Hole

By Jennifer Kabat

I found halcyon on a street in New York. Not graffiti, but part of the pavement: a mound of tarmac, in the middle of which was a steel plate where the word appeared. Shining in the light, it looked like frosting. Who put it there? Who...