Paul McCarthy Movies

Paul McCarthy's reinterpretation of John Ford's classic western Stagecoach.

Rocky comprises a single monitor video and fourteen related drawings. The video begins with a man, McCarthy himself, waiting before the camera with...

2 channel 16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 16:50 min An animated image flow of the absurd actions of male tyrants. Images of the world of male...

16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 45:26min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve are under a dead pine tree. Eva Eve’s back is against the tree. Adolf...

In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San...

Artists McCarthy and Kelley re-stage classic 1970s performance pieces by Vito Acconci, with a decidedly ironic Southern California sensibility....

In contrast with McCarthy's recent projects, however, many of his older works are little short of incendiary--particularly three videos from 1975,...

Experimental video about child abuse. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...

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,...

Wolf-Pig (2024), an AI-generated video work that shows Paul McCarthy’s latest interest and experimentation with new technologies.

In Painter, the mythology of the artist as hero is attacked in a grotesque, parodic performance that unambiguously points to the abstract...

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...

Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...

Dressed in a green wig, clown mask, and small hat, the artist raises and lowers his hands, sways his unclothed body, and hums a simple melody. He...

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...

The performance takes place in a small setting with an audience, but that's only a part of the artwork. After filming the performance he uses them...

On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist

Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four...

Paul McCarthy’s “Red Poster Tapes,” created in 1971-72, faithfully carry out a series of straightforward but bizarre instructions:...