Molly Crabapple: 'We’re just trying to use our art to consume the world'

The artist-turned-journalist, whose memoir Drawing Blood has just been released, talks about her influences and why she went her own way from the contemporary art world

Drawing, Molly Crabapple writes in her new memoir, Drawing Blood, is “exposure, confrontation, or reckoning. Every line a weapon.”

Not every artist would agree, but Crabapple is not “every artist”. In an era where art school credentials are proudly displayed on most artists’ CVs, institutional advancement turned out not to be her thing. A brief stint at the Fashion Institute of Technology bored her, and she dropped out.

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