Movies
- 1976
Rocky
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Rocky comprises a single monitor video and fourteen related drawings. The video begins with a man, McCarthy himself, waiting before the camera with...
- 1974
Sauce
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Performance art piece
- 1992
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
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A collaborative work based on Joanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.. The entire work consisted of a fabricated set, a group of partial and full life-size...
- 1975
Experimental Dancer
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In contrast with McCarthy's recent projects, however, many of his older works are little short of incendiary--particularly three videos from 1975,...
- 1976
Class Fool
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In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San...
- 1995
Painter
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In Painter, the mythology of the artist as hero is attacked in a grotesque, parodic performance that unambiguously points to the abstract...
- 2014
The Art Foundry
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- 1998
Out O' Actions
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Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...
- 2001
Heidi’s Four Basket Dances
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Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four...
- 1987
Cultural Soup
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A man makes soup with mayonnaise and dolls. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...
- 2001
Paul McCarthy: Destruction of the Body
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Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the...
- 2019
Coach Stage Stage Coach
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Paul McCarthy's reinterpretation of John Ford's classic western Stagecoach.
- 1991
Bossy Burger
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Paul McCarthy, with the mask of Mad Magazine icon Alfred E. Neuman, prepares a meal – makes a mess – in the set of the America soap...
- 2010
Aryan Death Ship
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In 1983, Paul McCarthy realised the performance Aryan Death Ship in which the artist assumed the authoritative figure of the captain of an...
- 2020
Becoming Paul McCarthy
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On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist
- 1975
Black and White Tapes
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Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the...
- 1975
Sailor's Meat (Sailor's Delight)
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Here, the artist performs as the female protagonist of Russ Meyer’s soft-porn film, Europe in the Raw! (1963). Done up in black lace lingerie,...
- 1987
Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
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Experimental video about child abuse. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...
- 1994
Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma
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With his Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma, Paul McCarthy shows that interfaces don't always have to be a complicated business. Contact with the...
- 1995
Fresh Acconci
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Artists McCarthy and Kelley re-stage classic 1970s performance pieces by Vito Acconci, with a decidedly ironic Southern California sensibility....