VAI is delighted to announce London-based art critic and editor, Orit Gat, as recipient of the inaugural VAN Guest Editor Award 2023. Orit’s winning proposal demonstrates ambitious editorial engagement with emerging discourse on the relationship between art and literature. We very much look forward to working with Orit and publishing this critical and timely content in VAN November – December 2023 issue.
Orit Gat is a writer and art critic living in London. She is a contributing editor at The White Review and at Art Papers and has written about contemporary art, culture, digital culture, and sports for magazines including Frieze, ArtReview, e-flux journal, LA Review of Books, Jacobin, and Paper Visual Art, among many others. She previously worked as an editor at e-flux, Rhizome, BOMB Magazine, and Modern Painters. She now teaches writing at the Royal College of Art and is at work on her first book, If Anything Happens, an essay on football, love, and loss.