Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
If news in the real world - recession, Baby P's torture, Islamic nutters' mayhem in Mubai - is making you glum, here's a Santa story to cheer you up. Today, Paul McCarthy's 6-metre-tall, black-patinated bronze, garden-gnome-style Santa Claus (2001) brandishing a dildo was finally installed at the Eendrachtsplein in "downtown" Rotterdam. This monstrosity was originally designed for the...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
ROTTERDAM.- After many years at the centre of thorny debate, Santa Claus, the renowned sculpture by Paul McCarthy, is being relocated to a definitive new home on the Eendrachtsplein, having spent three years in asylum in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's courtyard and a brief stop-over on the pavement alongside the museum entrance. Santa Claus will be transported to his permanent
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
... Here in L.A. we’re facing a very different infestation of pirates, courtesy of maverick artist Paul McCarthy and his son Damon. Continuing tomorrow and Saturday, REDCAT is presenting the multi-screen Caribbean Pirates , which their literature describes as “the McCarthy studio’s sprawling survey of the pirate figure in American popular culture.” Sounds fun, right? Well, avast...
The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Transmedia artist Guy Overfelt created this massive inflatable “smoke” installation for the Cantocore Export Guangzhou show in China a couple months ago. It follows the thread of Overfelt’s previous Inflatable Trans-AM. From the description of the piece, titled “Untitled” (Up in Smoke): This time the inflatable Smoke is fabricated in Guangzhou, factory direct. Beyond Paul McCarthy-like...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Transmedia artist Guy Overfelt created this massive inflatable "smoke" installation for the Cantocore Export Guangzhou show in China a couple months ago. It follows the thread of Overfelt's previous Inflatable Trans-AM. From the description of the piece, titled "Untitled" (Up in Smoke): This time the inflatable Smoke is fabricated in Guangzhou, factory direct. Beyond Paul McCarthy-like...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Transmedia artist Guy Overfelt created this massive inflatable "smoke" installation for the Cantocore Export Guangzhou show in China a couple months ago. It follows the thread of Overfelt's previous Inflatable Trans-AM. From the description of the piece, titled "Untitled" (Up in Smoke): This time the inflatable Smoke is fabricated in Guangzhou, factory direct. Beyond Paul McCarthy-like...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
NEW YORK.- Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art totaled $114 million, with 68% sold by lot. New world auction records were set for six artists, including Joseph Cornell, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Irwin, and Paul McCarthy, and for works on paper by Tom Wesselmann and Agnes Martin. Buyers were 59% American, 18% European, and 24% other.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
NEW YORK.- Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art totaled $114 million, with 68% sold by lot. New world auction records were set for six artists, including Joseph Cornell, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Irwin, and Paul McCarthy, and for works on paper by Tom Wesselmann and Agnes Martin. Buyers were 59% American, 18% European, and 24% other.
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... and he shouted out to Mr Mackay's partner Gillian Helder: “It's your fault. He came onto us.” Insp Paul McCarthy then tried to calm down Fernandez by saying that someone was dead in the other vehicle and the children were terrified but he replied he did not care, swore and then accused police of being racist. Ms Helder and the three children, aged 2, 10 and 14, all suffered injuries...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
On Wednesday, there was protracted bidding for Kusama's "No. 2," which soared to $5.7 million or more than twice its low estimate, smashing the artist's record. Richter's "Abstraktes Bild (710)," the sale's top lot, also beat its estimate as did Basquiat's "Untitled (Boxer)." Records for Paul McCarthy and Robert Irwin were also broken.
designers block (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Jake and Dinos Chapman RS&A in London asked famous artists to make their own chess sets. I was absolutely blown away by the results. Please go and visit the website and see these in close up they are amazing, just click on The Art of Chess Mauritzio Cattelan Good v Evil Paul McCarthy Kitchen Set Tracey Emin Matthew Ronay
Small Bits and Pieces (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
. . Yellow lines were painted around Paul McCarthy's car while he was away. The 31-year-old was stunned when he returned from a weekend away to find his once legally parked motor marked out for attention on Hyde Terrace in Woodhouse. Traffic wardens have slapped three £70 fines on it and the bar manager who lives in the centre of city is now in a wrangle with Leeds City Council. Paul...
Jossip (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Heather Mill's, that one-legged ex-wife of Sir Paul McCarthy, spent most of this spring fighting in a bitter divorce settlement that left her way richer than she was before she met the Beatle. The former porn star was awarded $48.6 million, an insane amount but still only a fraction of what Mucca originally asked for [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
... platform to perpetually engage her fans and let them dig deeper into her album while on the go." Paul McCarthy, Co-Founder of Aurnhammer LLC states "The P!nk App is a deep consumer experience, drawing fans into the world of all things P!nk and providing retail opportunities - literally at their fingertips." P!nk will release her fifth studio album Funhouse on October 28th. Her latest...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Contractors are to be reminded to exercise "common sense" by a local authority after it emerged they painted yellow lines around a parked car.Bar manager Paul McCarthy returned to his Leeds home from a week's holiday to discover his road had been resurfaced apart from the section under his car. Double yellow lines were painted around the vehicle and two parking fines had also been served,...
