Julie Joosten on Cabinet Magazine

Movers and shakers:  Cabinet is run by a dedicated staff who are curators of curiosity and curiosities.  The Editor-in-Chief is Sina Najafi and the Senior Editor is Jeffrey Kastner.  The magazine has an impressive array of artists, intellectuals, essayists, and philosophers as its Editors-at-Large. 

Brief History:  Cabinet  is a non-profit quarterly magazine that explores art and culture in beautiful and often unexpected ways.  It started in 2000 and runs out of New York.

Highlights of Venue:  Cabinet reads as a combination of art book, design magazine, scholarly journal, and sourcebook.  Each magazine has a theme; the themes range from “forgetting” to “bubbles” to “infrastructure.” Cabinet also has an excellent website that draws on the articles that appear in the magazine.  Reading the magazine and website feels like a lively engagement with a quirky, accretive mind romping through libraries of association, inspiration, rigor, and pleasure.

Of Special Interest to Poets:  Cabinet  is a wonderful magazine and site to turn to for generating thought, for encountering the unfolding of others’ marvelous thinking, and for engaging with provocative contemporary art and writing that’s fun to respond to or leap off from in one’s own writing.