I am so friggin excited to be going to Angouleme next week with Fred! Angouleme Comics Festival is the biggest comics festival in Europe, and in Europe, comics are high art. Thanks so much to Xavier Lancel of SCARCE Magazine … Continue reading
I’m exhibiting a reverse mermaid painting with my friends at Last Rites Gallery. Dark Pop 3.0 January 15th, 7-11 pm. On display January 15th- February 12th, 2011. Last Rites Gallery for the third year in a row has decided to … Continue reading
When I was in London, Melissa and I spent most nights drinking elitist cocktails with Malcolm Doherty at the Groucho Club. Malcolm is a musician, witty and stylish and sick and ferociously funny, and he’s coming to perform in New … Continue reading
Heeb Storytelling: Live Comics Edition a night of irreverent entertainment—graphic novel-style—curated by Heeb’s comics editor Jeff Newelt. get tix: http://bit.ly/HeebJoesComix Eight extraordinary comics creators project their smart, funny and sexy comics on a big screen. Featuring legendary MAD artist Al Jaffee … Continue reading
Five years ago, I started Dr. Sketchy’s. I had just dropped out of art school, and my entire event production experience consisted of a benefit for Planned Parenthood and a few years of arhythmic stripping on New York’s burlesque stages. … Continue reading
Master painter and friend Travis Louie did me the extreme honor of doing a drawing with me (photos to come) for his show “The Ghost of Delilah and Other Stories” at Gallery 1988. He also collaberated with Chet Zar, Zoetica … Continue reading
BURNINGdAN Spinning fire at Molly Crabapple’s Dr. Sketchys Flashmob @Art Basel Miami 2k9 from Ronen on Vimeo. 2009, Dr. Sketchy’s did a flashmob at Art Basel. We had Nik Sin and Dante Posh and glittering girls from South Florida’s burlesque … Continue reading
I am so excited to be doing a giant tribute to my hero Warhol’s factory. Ever since we did the Andy Warhol Dr. Sketchy’s at the Brooklyn Museum, I’ve been dying to revisit the theme. On November 13, we’re doing … Continue reading
My friend Ian Gerard is the brains behind GenArt, one of New York’s most legendary culture orgs. For over a decade, GenArt held art fairs, launched Zac Posen, threw film festivals, and was even kind enough to sponsor my tshirt … Continue reading
Oh this weekend, what an overbooked morass you’ve turned into! I’m taking part in, I kid you not, four different projects in the span of two days, three of which I can speak about. Read on and shudder! Project #1: … Continue reading
On Friday, I’ll be speaking at the Influencer 10 Conference. My panel is called “Collision Course: The Artist and the Muse of Commerce,” and I’ll be sharing the stage with the Kathy Grayson of the pretty-darn-spectacular Hole Gallery, with my … Continue reading
Tonight, I’m stoked and vaguely frightened to be talking at Ignite NYC. Ignite is a rapid-fire, high adrenalin speakers series where some of technology’s sharpest tacks share their thoughts on the universe. My talk is titled ‘DIY Empires: A How … Continue reading
You are invited to the my studio sale, taking place in my art and Chinese lantern filled loft in NYC. Taking place on September 26th and running from 4-6pm, it’ll feature a live, acoustic performance by Kim Boekbinder! Come to … Continue reading
On Friday, September 10th, me and team Sketchy’s are road-tripping down to Maryland to do Dr. Sketchy’s and present a panel at Intervention Con, the convention focused on The Intrawebs! We’re doing a fabulous, blue-body paint covered Dr. Sketchy’s on … Continue reading
Tomorrow, I’m leaving for Sao Paulo, where my friends, the art rockstars at Zupi Magazine, have a full schedule plotted for me. *exhibiting work at the Digital Art Show at University MacKenzie *teaching a workshop on “How to Rock Pen … Continue reading
I’m totally honored to be throwing a special Dr. Sketchy’s at the Brooklyn Museum, in tribute to a huge influance of mine, Andy Warhol. The last year has seen me speaking at an increasing amount of museums- from MoSex to … Continue reading
After months of work, years of big talk, and my assistant Melissa’s poor metacarpals, we’ve finally launched the brand new DrSketchy.com, v2.0! Each one of our 100+ Dr. Sketchy’s branches (from Akron to Zagreb) has a profile on our site, … Continue reading
Photo by Zoetica Ebb I love going big. At Lost Circus, thrown by Brooklyn’s mistress of decadence, Larisa Fuchs of Gemini and Scorpio, I’m creating giant photo booth installations of my art. You can truely step inside my paintings. Come … Continue reading
On July 23rd, the Pornsaints Exhibition opens at the Museum of Porn in Art in Zurich. Who Needs Eve When You Have Venus?, my portrait of April Flores, is included in the show and the catalog. You can pick up … Continue reading
Back in Mid June, I was lucky enough to design windows for my launch party at Atrium Boutique in Noho. It was a mad, glue fumed, 16 hour day kind of time, accomplished only with the whip cracking of one … Continue reading
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, will be published by HarperCollins in November 2015. Called "An emblem of the way art can break out of the gilded gallery" by the New Republic, she has drawn in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Dhabi's migrant labor camps, and with rebels in Syria. Crabapple is a columnist for VICE, and has written for publications including The New York Times, Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
