“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 site near you.
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 their careers. Though they work in different fields what the two have in common is that they have both built their careers on their own: no management, booking, labels, or galleries of any kind have made possible what they do. Yet they both make a living as full time artists in a world where we are told that fewer and fewer people are paying for music and art.
Molly Crabapple discusses circumventing the rigid gallery system which favors the sale of large and expensive works of art over the quick, passionate, and current work of such a prolific artist.
Kim Boekbinder brings to the table her groundbreaking pre-sold tour concept and the successes and pitfalls of an artist in close contact with her audience.
Hacking the Crowd: Artists as Entrepreneurs
Hyatt Regency Austin
Texas Ballroom 5-7
208 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX
Sunday, March 10th, 11am – 12pm
Save the date! The Shell Game opens to the public Sunday, April 14th from 7-10pm.
Smart Clothes Gallery
154 Stanton Street
New York, NY 10002
The Story
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
Friday, February 22, 2013
Event runs 10am-4pm
I go on at 12:00pm. I’m going to talk about art and politics.
London School of Economics
Women Writing History @ LSE and Gender Institute Literary Festival
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
1-2:30pm
I’ll be speaking about Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and ideas about men’s and women’s art. Free, but you have to reserve tickets online
Watch me speak with Off Book on PBS about illustration and the internet.
Has the successful transmission of images become essential to engaging in and sustaining dissent? In our mediatized world, issues of visual representation lie increasingly at the center of the social movements. Join illustrators Peter Kuper and Molly Crabapple in discussion with comic-book scholar Jonathan W. Gray about the politics of representing dissent from Oaxaca to Greece to Occupy to the Gaza Strip.
Representing Dissent: Political Movements and Graphic Narrative
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
The Skylight Room (9100)
New York, NY
Friday, February 15th @ 6:00 pm
Another holiday, another sale! Head on over to my Etsy shop and use the coupon code NOLOVE for 10% off, now through February 14th.
The old world’s machines are breaking. In 2011, millions noticed: in Spain and Greece and New York and Cairo, they sat down in public squares, and said the machine was defunct. Those squares are empty today. Spain’s protest movements are now doing the slow work of building spaces to help each other, while the world decides what it’s going to become.
But what Ariadne discovered on her walks with the Meadow was that there were bigger places to see. The multiverse hangs in the metaverse, a room where all the universes hang like sheets on a great hypermagnetic wave. And the Xenoverse is the weather outside that room that causes the wave. And the Hyperverse is the weather system that causes those winds. And the Hyperverse is the impossibly giant ecology that contains all things. Ariadne, of course, knew as well as you and I that weeds get bloody everywhere. So it was not an impossibly long time before she, in a boat of Meadow, could look down on all of creation and know that everything everywhere was really nothing more than things growing. And she, no less than a clever woman who never learned not to ask questions, did look down, and smiled.
Words by Warren Ellis, pictures by Molly Crabapple.
ARIADNE 4/5 is available as a limited-edition print.
© Warren Ellis & Molly Crabapple 2012
#ariadnescience
The giant wrap-up of things I’ve made that you can buy for the holidays. The last day to order in order to get things for Christmas is 12/15.
Original Commissions
Have Molly Crabapple do a custom portrait illustration for you! Your original artwork will be drawn on 13 x 19″ stained art paper with pen, ink, gouache and dye. It will be in a similar style to the image listed. Please be prepared to send one or two photos that clearly shows the subject’s face within 5 days of commission purchase. Limited to ten portraits, guaranteed delivery by the holidays with timely delivery of photographs.
Silkscreen of the Month
For 2013, Molly Crabapple will produce one limited edition 8×12″ (paper size) silkscreen per month. You can purchase the full year’s worth of silkscreens, which will be released on the first of every month & mailed to you. If you order the year in advance, you will also receive a hand made portfolio case to store your artwork in, emblazoned with the “Art of Molly Crabapple” logo.
+ Subcribe to Silkscreen of the Month here
Ariadne and the Science
My art/flash fiction collaboration with Warren Ellis. Buy the first three prints here
Prints
Giclees and serigraphs this way.
I Have Your Heart Merch
Limited edition t-shirts and DVD’s from our insane paper puppet animation
Books
Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens
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, The Guardian, and Jacobin.
