Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist living in New York. She learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore, and once sketched her way into a Turkish jail. Her recent projects are “Week in Hell,” in which she locked herself in a hotel room, covered the walls in paper, and filled 270 square feet of wall with art; “I Have Your Heart,” a stop-motion short film created with musician Kim Boekbinder and animator Jim Batt; and, currently, “Shell Game,” a series of large-scale paintings about the revolutions of 2011 that will be on exhibition publicly in Spring 2013.
Articles by Molly Crabapple
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Molly Crabapple Sent Us Sketches from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Pretrial Hearings at Gitmo
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s military commission at Guantanamo Bay is a guarded affair. It will be the trial of the century, the first attempt at bringing a high-level war-on-terror detainee to justice. These are the only visuals of the pretrial hearings that exist other than the drawings by the official courtroom sketch artist. There's more from Molly to come. Full story
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Filthy Lucre
Artists too have their myths. The lies told to artists mirror the lies told to women. Be good enough, be pretty enough, and that guy or gallery will sweep you off your feet, to the picket-fenced land of generous collectors and two and a half kids. But, make the first move, seize Full story
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The Fight to Save America's Best Free College
President Bharucha probably wasn’t too happy when, yesterday morning, 50 students took over his office at Cooper Union. He had left the building minutes before. Since the occupation started, 200 students and the entire tenured faculty of the art department, have signed a vote of… Full story
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Why Draw Pictures?
Where the respectable avert their gaze, artists stare. In the Renaissance, we dissected bodies in order to grasp the workings of a shoulder joint. We drew naked models at a time when women corseted themselves neck to knees. We took rooms in brothels and captured courtrooms where Full story
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Molly Crabapple’s 'SHELL GAME' Opens Tomorrow in NYC, You're Invited
I've spent the last year making nine giant paintings about the rebellions of 2011: the Greek riots, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring… I interviewed dissident Tunisian bloggers, drank with Athenian anti-fascists, got arrested by the NYPD, and live-sketched riots in Madrid. I worked… Full story
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Talking About My Abortion
Abortion is sometimes a trauma, sometimes an anticlimax, sometimes a relief. There are a million abortion stories just like there are a million stories about giving birth and going to war. None are representative. This is mine. Full story
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Lulz and Leg Irons: In the Courtroom with Weev
On the morning of March 18, I was sitting at the Federal Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey, waiting to hear how long Weev would spend in jail. I didn't go there to write an article. I went because his conviction was wrong, and my friends and I cared for him. I wanted to be another… Full story
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New York Cops Will Arrest You for Carrying Condoms
The NYPD will arrest you for carrying condoms, but that depends entirely on who you are. If you're a middle-class white girl like me, you're probably safe. But say you're a sex worker, or a queer kid kicked out of your home. Say you're a trans woman out for dinner with your boyf… Full story
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Shooter Boys and At-Risk Girls
When I was 12, I was thrown out of school for, among other crimes, drawing headless cheerleaders during English. It was the cherry atop a year of being hauled before earnest adults concerned about my future. I was an at-risk girl. No one would ever say at risk for what. Full story
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Seville's Squatters: No Light, No Water, No Fear
Molly Crabapple, who you may remember from her previous posts, The World of a Professional Naked Girl, and Rubber Bullets in the Streets of Madrid is now officially doing a monthly column for us that will feature original writing and illustrations on a variety of subjects. Here'… Full story
The Water, Tea, and Light Diet
This Woman Is Doing It for 100 Days 
The Magic Kingdom Is Creepy
Photos of Life in the Shadow of the Mouse 
We Interviewed Rand Paul
He's Not Quite as Annoying as His Dad 
Istanbul Rising
On the Ground in Taksim Square 
From Tahrir to Occupy to Istanbul
An Anatomy of Current and Future Protest 
Weed Wine
Brough to You by California's Finest Vintners 
