Molly Crabapple (2016) | From the frontline

In a time of turmoil, what happens when art and politics
collide? From prisons, refugee camps and war zones, artist and
journalist Molly Crabapple has documented the astounding
courage of people living in the worst possible
circumstances.  




Crabapple wonders whether art is sharp enough to cut through
razor wires. Is it time to move art out of galleries and use it
as a real agent for change?


Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer who has been published
in the New York Times, The Paris Review, Vanity Far, The
Guardian, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She became a
journalist sketching the frontlines of Occupy Wall Street,
before covering, with words and art, the Russian invasion of
Ukraine, Lebanese snipers, Guantanamo Bay, the US-Mexican
border, Pennsylvania prisoners, New York cabbies, Greek refugee
camps, and the ravages of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.