Cara Marsh Sheffler

Welcome to the website of a writer worn down by perfectly reasonable requests that she create her own website.

The Blurb

The Blurb

Cara Marsh Sheffler is a New York-based writer, translator, curator, journalist, and editor. She holds a BA from Princeton in Comparative Literature and a Certificate in Creative Writing, for which she won the Fagles Prize. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including The Guardian and VICE. As one half of ¡AGITPOP! Press, she collaborates with visual artist Johannah Herr to create publications that are for sale at bookstores and galleries including Printed Matter, Perrotin, After 8, The Hole, Mast, Skylight, and Karma. These titles have been acquired by the University of Miami and the Clark Art Institute, among other libraries and collections. ¡AGITPOP!'s work has been featured by art fairs including NADA, Frieze, EXPO CHICAGO, the LA Art Book Fair, the New York Art Book Fair, and SPRING/BREAK. Their most recent full-length book is a revisitation to the World’s Fair, I Have Seen the Future: Official Guide. Sheffler's writing in it was described by The New York Times as “enthusiastically caustic.” Most recently, their riff on a midcentury suburban circular, White Flight!, was published by CUNY and featured for four months at BMCC’s Shirley Fiterman Art Center. Together this June, they presented at the inaugural bell hooks center Symposium at Berea College and at the Paris Ass Bookfair at the Palais de Tokyo. Two of their books were selected for inclusion at the archive in the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou. ¡AGITPOP! titles are distributed by Antenne.

“What to see in NYC galleries in August" (Review)

The New York Times · Aug 17, 2023


"Souvenirs of the Wasteland” (Exhibition Catalog)

Elijah Wheat Showroom · Aug 1, 2024

"Time Waits for No One” (Exhibition Catalog)

Ortega y Gasset Projects · May 15, 2024


"Looking Anywhere But Here:

Marguerite Wibaux’s ‘SEEN’ at The Locker Room"

Quiet Lunch · Apr 4, 2024

Recetas de las Republicas Bananeras

¡AGITPOP! Press · Feb 1, 2024

"Paris Internationale 9: Review"

C Magazine · Jan 24, 2024


"It’s Always Basel Somewhere:

On the endless proliferation of art weeks"

The Conversationalist · Dec 21, 2023


"FutureRama-Drama”

Syllabus Project · Nov 21, 2023

”Dans l'œil de Libé: La banane fait recettes et débat” (Review)

Libération · Oct 23, 2023

"There’s No Such Thing as an Ethical Museum"

The Conversationalist · Sep 14, 2023

"Faustine Badrichani expose ses fragments de nus au SPRING/BREAK Art Show" (Review)

French Morning · Sep 11, 2023

"A Trip to Spring Break Art Show Yields a Touching Encounter With Steve Buscemi, a Racy Call Center, and Much, Much More"(Review)

artnet news · Sep 8, 2023


"Reimagining Matisse’s lines through the lens of a teasing voyeur: “Dot not Disturb” at SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW’s Wild Card!" (Review)

White Hot Magazine · Sep 6, 2023


"LA Art Book Fair Participants Get Candid About the State of the Medium" (Interview)

Cultured Magazine · Aug 15, 2023


"Ceramics take centre stage at Spring Break’s 'secret' New York pop-up" (Review)

The Art Newspaper · May 19, 2023


“I Have a Crush on Death: In praise of a Valentine who never ghosts, and what our crushes tell us about ourselves”

The Conversationalist · Feb 14, 2023


White Flight!

¡AGITPOP! Press / CUNY · Sep 22, 2022


"Tradition and Transgression at Spring/Break 2022" (Review)

Arcade Project Zine · Sep 13, 2022


"See Inside Spring/Break, the Indie Fair That Took Over Ralph Lauren’s Offices With Edgy, Outrageous, and Surprisingly Affordable Art" (Review)

artnet news · Sep 8, 2022


"Field Pod, Episode 4: 'Round the World's Fair" (Podcast Interview)

Field Projects · May 25, 2022


Art We Saw This Spring" (Review)

The New York Times · Apr 27, 2022

"Unbreaking Media, Episode 4: In Praise of Pleasure (with Cara Sheffler)" (Podcast Interview)

The Conversationalist · Apr 7, 2022


I Have Seen the Future: Official Guide

¡AGITPOP! Press / Field Projects · Apr 7, 2022


"Thoughts on New York’s re-opened NIMBY economy”

The Conversationalist · Jun 30, 2021


The Banana Republican Recipe Book

¡AGITPOP! Press / Geary Gallery / NADA · May 13, 2021


"Dreaming big: the politics of preaching body acceptance in a fat phobic society”

The Conversationalist · May 5, 2021


Domestic Terrorism

¡AGITPOP! Press / Elijah Wheat Showroom · Nov 3, 2020


"The personal (even on Prozac) is political: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s literary legacy"

The Conversationalist · Jan 16, 2020


"The fog of overachieving: from Robert S. McNamara to Donald J. Trump"

The Conversationalist · Nov 1, 2019


"Woody Allen's films move many people. It's time to ask why"

The Guardian · Feb 11, 2018


"‘Fearless Girl’ Statue to Stay in Financial District (for Now)" (Coverage of a story I wrote)

The New York Times · Mar 27, 2017


"The 'Fearless Girl' statue sums up what's wrong with feminism today"

The Guardian · Mar 14, 2017


"'The Eloise from Hell':

The Little Old Lady Who Terrorized New York's Famed Plaza Hotel"

VICE · Mar 23, 2016

Selected Press & Publications