Yahoo

What artist Paul McCarthy has drawn and learned from Instagram in the pandemic

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Hammer Museum’s ‘Paul McCarthy: Head Space’ draws a revelatory picture of L.A. artist

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 ...
Artnet

‘I’m Not Trying to Satisfy an Audience’: Watch Paul McCarthy Transform Historical Depictions of Purity Into Objects of Revulsion

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 ...
Complex

Ye Brings Paul McCarthy’s Satirical “Painter” Piece Into the 2020s: What to Know About the Artist and His Work

A dizzyingly unencumbered Paul McCarthy performance piece, now nearly 30 years in the rearview, has returned to the conversation thanks to some seemingly timely Instagram activity from the artist ...
Observer

Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy, born on August 4, 1945, in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an influential American contemporary artist known for his provocative and often controversial works. He studied at the ...