Paul Mccarthy

James Franco's New MOCA Exhibit Recreates Chateau Marmont

The Daily Truffle | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Harmony Korine, Jeffrey Deitch, Paul McCarthy, MOCA Los Angeles, Aaron Young, Moca, James Franco, Los Angeles News
The Daily Truffle

James Franco wanted to make a movie about the making of Rebel without a Cause but wound up with a collaborative MOCA exhibit instead.

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James Franco Channels James Dean...Again

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Terry Richardson, Video, Paul McCarthy, James Dean, Rebel WIthout a Cause, Rebel, Slidepollajax, Moca Rebel, Harmony Korine, James Franco, Nicholas Ray, Arts News

James Franco's presence in the art and literature worlds revolve around an obsession with masculine youth in all its angsty, confused and violent glor...

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Paul McCarthy's Quasi-Religious, Action-Packed Gallery Takeover

Marina Cashdan | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Pig Island, L&M Arts, Mad House, Paul McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth, Paul Mccarthy Art, George W. Bush, Video, Arts News
Marina Cashdan

It's McCarthy across the board at Hauser & Wirth this month. The gallery is showing the Los Angeles-based artist's action-performance psychosexual, popular culture influenced sculptures, video works and installations.

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James Franco's Art Debut At Venice Biennale Delayed

The Independent | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Site Specific, Installation Art, James Franco, Rebel WIthout a Cause, Ed Ruscha, Rebel, Paul McCarthy, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale, Film, James Dean, Franco, Franco Rebel, Arts News

James Franco's metamorphosis into a modern-day Renaissance man has been unstoppable. An actor with a gamut of Hollywood films to his name, he has writ...

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WATCH: James Franco's New Art Project 'Rebel'

ARTINFO | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Art, James Dean, Rebel WIthout a Cause, Artinfo, James Franco, Venice Biennale, Dennis Hopper, Douglas Gordon, Dominic Sidhu, Venice Biennale 2011, Moca, Rebel, Paul McCarthy, Film, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News
ARTINFO

How meteoric is actor James Franco's art career? This meteoric: mere months after having his first solo gallery show at Berlin 's Peres Projects follo...

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Slate of Top Exhibitions in the West Entering November

ArtScene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: " Stephanie Bachiero, "Ballad of the Non-Specific Object, Paul McCarthy, Steve Burtch, " Lee Friedlander, Victor Kreiden, "The 1960s Revisited, Michael Goldberg, Arts News
ArtScene

The inaugural exhibition at perhaps the major new gallery launch this year, at L&M Arts in Venice, is both minimal and maximal.

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Simon Says, It's Open House

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maurizio Cattelan, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Phillips De Pury, Kisa Lala, Simon De Pury, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Christie's, Sotheby's, Stephanie Seymour, Phillipe Segalot, Walter Benjamin, Arts News
Spread ArtCulture

Let the drum-rolls begin -- Simon dePury, the market-savvy chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, was at hand to christen the new Park Avenue location for the inaugural preview of the Part 1-Contemporary Art Evening Sale.

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Art Behaving Badly

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tadao Ando, Art, Resnick Pavillion, Paul McCarthy, Renzo Piano, Resnick Collection, Edward Goldman, Hammer Museum, Eva Hess, Lacma, L, Arts News
Edward Goldman

To say that the Los Angeles art season started on a high note this fall doesn't even begin to describe the excitement generated last weekend by numerous openings. Did all that contribute to the 100ยบ-plus heat?

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ART WORLD: Ten Most Overrated Los Angeles Art Stars

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lauren Bon, Christopher Williams, Paul McCarthy, Moca, Ucla, Ed Ruscha, Artists, Usc, Charlie White, Lacma, John Baldessari, Los Angeles, Catherine Opie, Frank Romero, Art, Overrated, Museums, Contemporary Art, Lari Pittman, Jorge Pardo, Arts News
Mat Gleason

Here are the top ten living Los Angeles artists whose success is nowhere near commensurate with their accomplishments.

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Warning: This Blog Contains Explicit Language and Lots of It

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grasses of a Thousand Colours, Wallace Shawn, Language, Explicit Art, Paul McCarthy, New Plays, Slide Projections 1971-2006, Theater, Calendar Girls, Barack Obama in Cairo, England, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Slides hurled images on the walls of the artist and various agreeable participants carrying on in the nude or the nearly nude, full-frontally slathering their bodies with thick, gooey substances.

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