Interview
Marlene McCarty's Unorthodox Visions in Ballpoint Pen
The artist talks about her epic drawings, her work in the AIDS activism collective Gran Fury, and why plants may hold the key to taking back our bodies.
Marlene McCarty
Art
Disturbing Portraits of Girls Who Murdered Their Mothers Resist Moral Takeaways
Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls series does not give us the satisfaction of a neatly wrapped moral or a happy ending, nor does the artist attempt to rationalize the girls’ actions or to vilify them.
Art
We Were Not Making Art, We Were at War
At some point, nearly two hours in, Marlene McCarty, one of the members of the AIDS activist group Gran Fury, an affinity group that was part of ACT-UP, reminded those gathered: “We were not making art.” The event was a panel discussion that took place at Columbia University on November 15, organize
Interview
Is Art Enough? Gran Fury in Perspective
Walking through galleries filled with reproductions of posters, flyers, takeaways and other ephemera rather than torn and yellowed scraps of archival materials, I spoke with Gran Fury member and artist Marlene McCarty and 80 Washington Square East Gallery assistant director and curator Michael Cohen