Join us for a special evening with celebrated artist, author, and activist MOLLY CRABAPPLE, as she takes us inside her powerful, politically engaged body of work. From the streets of New York to refugee camps in Syria, from Guantanamo Bay to the pages of The New York Times and The Paris Review, Crabapple’s art blends reportage, personal narrative, and visual storytelling to confront some of the most urgent issues of our time.
Part of DRAWING THE LINE, a curated series of public conversations with groundbreaking political cartoonists and visual commentators, this event is moderated by the acclaimed cartoonist TOM TOMORROW (This Modern World), and promises an insightful, unfiltered look at art as a tool for resistance, testimony, and truth.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the most original voices in contemporary political art.
- The event is free. If you would like to stay for dinner, a fixed-price menu will be available for $60.
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Toulouse Lautrec, Diego Rivera and Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War.’ She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her animated films have been nominated for five Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award.
Crabapple’s reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She got her start as the house artist for New York’s most notorious nightclub. She became a journalist sketching the frontlines of Occupy Wall Street, before covering, with words and art, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lebanese snipers, Guantánamo Bay, the US-Mexican border, New York cabbies, Greek refugee camps, and the ravages of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Her work is in the permenant collection of the Museum of Modern Art
