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January 21, 2015 Rhett Jones

Following the vicious terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the recent vandalism of Paul McCarthy’s big butt plug art installation in Paris, fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck made his feelings about censorship clear on Wednesday. For the debut of his latest collection at Paris Fashion Week, Beirendonck sent his models down the runway wearing giant bald eagles with […]

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October 21, 2014 Rhett Jones

Francoise Hollande, the President of France, has officially weighed in on butt plugs as art. He is in favor of butt plugs. After the legendary artist Paul McCarthy was attacked in Paris late last week, organizers agreed to take down his 80-foot sculpture of a green butt plug. Bearing the title Tree, the sculpture drew angry […]

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October 17, 2014 Marina Galperina

Renowned artist Paul McCarthy has just installed a green, 24-foot tall inflatable butt plug in Paris’s Place Vendôme. Apparently, some Frenchpeople aren’t embracing the butt plug in their historic square. A group protested, but they were just a small, anti-gay hate club. But then… McCarthy began installing the sculpture at 11:30 am, according to the paper. At […]

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May 10, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Today is the opening of not one, but two of three Paul McCarthy exhibitions that will run throughout New York City this Spring. The three related exhibitions will be scattered throughout the city and accompanied by an outdoor sculpture presentation. Well, we’re not complaining. Why can’t it always be “Paul McCarthy Season?” Today, at both of Hauser & Wirth’s […]

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May 9, 2013 Marina Galperina

Now, Paul McCarthy is just rubbing it in. Yes, there is a giant balloon dog sitting on Randall’s Island. But it is not Jeff Koons. It is a Paul McCarthy. Like that poop.  If you remember, we had quite the chortle about Jeff Koons grandiose flight of delusion back when he sent cease and desist letters to San Francisco’s Park Life store/gallery […]

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