In an interview with Amelia Abraham in VICE on his amusingly upsetting zine Ninja Turtle Sex Museum, London-based artist James Unsworth explained, “The grotesque usually combines horror and humor that don’t necessarily go together, and so you don’t really know how to process it. I’m interested in those kinds of psychological spaces that are outside … Continue reading
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Immersed In Paul McCarthy’s Masturbatory Filthy Fairytale
Walking into Paul McCarthy’s enormous and hallucinatory exhibition WS at the Park Avenue Armory, I was immediately hit by a cacophony of moaning, gasping and screaming projected from multiple video screens around the installation. Continue reading
Existing In Humiliation (And Liking It) At ‘Rebel Dabble Babble’
Speaking to a select crowd before the opening of his exhibition Rebel Dabble Babble at Hauser & Wirth, controversial artist Paul McCarthy explained, “In the position of being humiliated, you learn something. We all exist in humiliation.” Continue reading