Farewell to Manhattan’s Secret Bookstore
Nothing is more temporary than a paradise.
Molly Crabapple
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Sketchbook: The First Sex-Worker Town Hall
Last Saturday, I sat on the floor of a queer art space in Ridgewood, watching a Democratic congressional candidate make his case to an audience of two hundred people who were, for the most part, sex workers. It felt a bit like something histori…
Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Radical Arts Collective
In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook. A few weeks after Hurricane Maria, I visited Cas…
Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Elders of the Island
In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook. Puerto Rico is an elderly island. A quarter of …
Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Comic-Book Artist
In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook. Rosa Colón sat in the back room of El Local, a Sa…
Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Houses Still Standing
In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook. “We are older than you,” Pepe says, when I mee…
Puerto Rico Sketchbook: There Are Dead in the Fields
In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook.Maria passed and they said “Puerto Rico, se levant…
Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Anarchist Bikers Who Came to Help
In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook. On November 4, a little over a month after the …
Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Artists with the Shovels
In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook. Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi has lost track of how many…
“One Murder Is Statistically Utterly Unimportant”: A Conversation with Warren Ellis
Somewhere, on an NSA server in Utah, there sits an email from Warren Ellis threatening to strangle me to death with my own intestines. Our all-caching surveillance state is something that might have been thought up by Ellis himself. A writer of no…
Sketches from the Trial of Bradley Manning
On Tuesday, I sat in a Fort Meade courtroom, waiting to hear if Bradley Manning would be found guilty of treason. Bradley Manning’s trial (like those of hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, or Anonymous-affiliated journalist Barrett Brown) is a trial of mode…
Drawing Gitmo
In the eleven years since captives arrived at Guantanamo Bay, only three artists have been allowed to visit. I’m here drawing the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed hearings for VICE magazine. Artists sketch through three layers of soundproof glass. There’s a…
Diego, Frida, and Me
When a woman artist looks for her forebears, she sees a void. There are, needless to say, great female artists. There’s Tamara de Lempicka, queen of art deco. There’s Artemisia Gentileschi, forever in paintings, cutting off her rapist’s head.…