Shell Game VIP Opening
Photos from the VIP opening of Shell Game, by Steve Prue.
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Category Archives: Photos
Weeks in Review
This picture was taken over a year ago. Me, Kim Boekbinder and Jim Batt had decided to do something grand. We wanted to tell a story of love and death in a central European city made out of paper cutouts- inside Jim’s loft in Melbourne. Here I am drawing some houses. It’s called I Have [...] Continue reading
Mona’s Sekhmet Tattoo
Clayton Cubitt captures the before/during/after of Mona Eltahawy’s tattoo. Sekhmet drawing by me
Bluestockings Signing
Thanks so much to everyone who came out to Bluestockings last night to hear Sarah Jaffe be incisive, and me prattle about Toulouse-Lautrec fetishes, oppositional defiant disorder, art, money, and rebellion. Bluestockings has some signed copies of Devil in the Details, in case you couldn’t make it. Beautiful friends pins for Shell Game backers (got [...] Continue reading
Behind the Scenes Painting
Working on Shell Game means I often spend 10-12 hours a day in front of a giant piece of wood, wearing Fred’s old shirts, punching my hands so they work and trying to create a convincing universe. laying down tape to make stripes Working this much means that I seldom leave the loft, which is [...] Continue reading
Athens
beautiful and burnt out building. Athens From July 4-9, me and journalist Laurie Penny travelled to Athens to research Discordia, an illustrated ebook on life under the Eurozone crisis. Random House UK will be releasing it in early fall my sketchbook We interviewed striking steelworkers, queer activists, migrant organizers, anarchists, Bangladashi marketing students, and SYRIZA [...] Continue reading
Paris/Amsterdam with Royal Talens
Dear Comrades, with the Mona Lisa. Bitch totally photobombed me. I’m writing to you from the black and brocade lobby of the Vondel Hotel in Amsterdam. I’ve spent the past week in Europe, at the behest of my beloved Royal Talens, the art supply company that showers me in nifty toys. The ink, acrylics I [...] Continue reading
My May Day Poster in The World
Bed-stuy. New York
The Mission. SF
St Marks Books. NYC
888 Turk Street. Occupied building. SF
Portraits by Bill Wadman
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Friend and renowned editorial photographer Bill Wadman came over and shot these amazing portraits of me. Check out his work at On Taking Pictures
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Cinemagraph #2
Cinemagraph by Brainwomb
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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.
