The Art of Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, writer and author of Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham)

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The Art of Molly Crabapple

New Interview in ArtNews

Molly has a fantastic new interview up on ArtNews talking about her career, the role political art, and the importance of artists producing their own work.

“I don’t believe that you are a real artist if you have assistants paint or sculpt all your work for you. I’m not talking running a studio like Rembrandt, where he did the hard parts and assistants painted the clouds. I’m talking about the way that someone like Mark Kostabi hires broke art-school grads to paint his work for him. If you do that, at best you’re an art director, but more likely you’re just an exploitive CEO. Many fine artists have disagreed with me and said I was a retrograde regressive reactionary, and the real art is in the idea. I don’t buy it. If art is just the idea, you’re saying labor, craft, and work with your hands is contemptible and beneath an artist. No, you have to do your art yourself. With your own hands.”

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2019 by Ariel.

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About Molly:
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhart Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have been nominated for three Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award.

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Molly Crabapple:
molly@mollycrabapple.com

Speaking Engagements: The Lavin Agency
cyao@thelavinagency.com

Literary Agent: Alice Whitwham
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