For half a century, artist Paul McCarthy has made work inspired by a most abject muse: the toxic male ego at its most infantile and belligerent. Sailors, pirates, cowboys, U.S. presidents from Reagan ...
He was born in Utah and trained in San Francisco. He linked the world of Marcel Duchamp with that of the Beat Generation, ...
For the first time, the American artist Paul McCarthy is having a survey dedicated entirely to his drawings and works on paper, opening this February at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. A provocateur ...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Surrealism and Expressionism were dead in the water as viable strategies for making worthwhile new art. The commercial language of Pop, the strict geometries of ...
Lest we forget Piccadilly Circus, Paul McCarthy`s 2003 video performance as George W. Bush, a president who likes to get naked and paint with his face, the artist-who has also recently enjoyed both a ...