I’m running an auction for this portrait of Private Bradley E. Manning, created for the April 5, 2013 event at Judson Memorial Church, NYC. 17″ x 22″ giclée print on 100% cotton rag archival paper. Limited edition of 200. The auction … Continue reading
I’ve done several murals. Mural work is art at its most blue collar and most sublime: half carpentry and half metaphysics. You’re exhausted and filthy, wobbling on a rickety platform, but you’re creating a world. Anyone who enters … Continue reading
“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 meant to be another body filling the courtroom, to provide whatever support that’s good for.” … Continue reading
Molly Crabapple in conversation from Paul Mason on Vimeo. Artist Molly Crabapple talks about her new exhibition of paintings, entitled “Shell Game” (which opens April 14 in New York) and her documentary drawings of #OWS, #15-M and the global unrest, … Continue reading
“Scabby the Rat is popular art at its best. He’s the mean, funny, fiercely alive counterpart to all New York’s anodyne corporate sculpture.” Sarah Jaffe and I created a tribute to Scabby the Rat. See him outside a non-union building … Continue reading
Molly Crabapple – visual artist, and Kim Boekbinder – musician, are both champions of the crowd funding age. Both have received international praise and recognition for their groundbreaking work in their respective mediums, as well as the way they run … Continue reading
I'm Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer in New York. My art show, Shell Game, was covered by press including New Republic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, Wired, and The American Reader. My work can be found in the permanent collections of the New York Historical Society, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Groucho Club. I've published several books, including Discordia (with Laurie Penny), and the forthcoming Straw House. I write a monthly column for VICE, and my essays have appeared at CNN, The Paris Review and Jacobin.
