'I get censored four or five times a year': Paul McCarthy, art's virtuoso of vile
From inflatable excrement to a porn James Dean, McCarthy has delved into America’s dark side. But has reality finally overtaken his ketchup-smeared visions of corruption?
March 2015
Fast cars and lumber shacks: how Jason Rhoades became the all-American bad boy of art
Throbbing power tools, girly calendars, logs covered in porn and a slimy substance called PeaRoeFoam ... take an X-rated road trip through the American male psyche with the late artist Rhoades
November 2014
Post Pop: East Meets West review – an exhibition beyond taste
From Paul McCarthy to Jeff Koons, this a refreshingly unprescriptive show, totally unrepressed by today’s idea of cool, writes Jonathan Jones
October 2014
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Ukip, poppies and an astonishing art fraud case – the week in art
Jonathan Jones: The debate over the Tower of London’s poppy sculpture hots up, as northern England gets its first Andy Warhol solo show – all in your favourite weekly art roundup
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Butt-plug scandals and Banksy vandals – the week in art
Vandals took centre-stage this week, with Paul McCarthy’s Tree sculpture targeted for its resemblance to a butt plug, and Banksy and Jeff Koons art spray-painted
Paul McCarthy 'butt plug' sculpture in Paris provokes rightwing backlash
Jonathan Jones on art
Shocked by Paul McCarthy's butt plug? You obviously haven't seen his phallic Pinocchio
'Sex toy' sculpture raises eyebrows in Paris - video
June 2014
Naked, in tears or dressed like Bardot: the secrets of the sitters
Celebrities from Vivienne Westwood to Gabriel Byrne and Beth Ditto reveal what it's really like to sit for their portrait
November 2012
A Bigger Splash: Painting after performance – review
This shambolic survey of the ways that performance art changed painting is noisy, messy and sometimes fascinating, writes Laura Cumming
February 2012
Jonathan Jones on art
Mike Kelley: LA baroque
Kelley's untimely death reminds me that his strange, fresh, punk-personal work made him defiantly an artist of Los Angeles, writes Jonathan Jones
November 2011
One work
Portrait of the artist: Paul McCarthy's The King - video
Paul McCarthy – review
Paul McCarthy: 'I had this thing about exposing the interior of the body'
Inside Paul McCarthy's Hollywood nightmares – in pictures
October 2008
1000 artworks to see before you die
Artists beginning with M (part one)
From Paul McCarthy to Master of St Francis
October 2005
Shiver me timbers
Paul McCarthy's pirates, sows and filthy puppets are a parodic comment on art, film - and American empire-building. By Adrian Searle.
September 2005
'Orgies and battles' promised at Paul McCarthy's pirate theme park
The American artist Paul McCarthy is transforming a London warehouse into an extraordinary theme park of violence and sexual debauchery.
November 2003
Not suitable for children. Or adults
Food flies, blood spurts and bottoms are bared when Dubya takes tea with the Queen Mum. Adrian Searle enters the disturbing world of Paul McCarthy.
May 2003
Power and the gory
This summer, the world's largest inflatable sculpture - a 35m, black, distorted Pinocchio, will greet visitors to Tate Modern. It will provoke controversy, unease and bemusement. But, as Lynn Barber discovers, that's exactly the way its American creator Paul McCarthy likes it.
