American artist slapped and artworked vandalised,as right-wing protesters accuse him of ‘humiliating’ ParisShocked by McCarthy’s butt plug? You haven’t seen his phallic Pinocchio
Paris has no shortage of towering columns that amateur psychologists like to view in sexual terms. But nothing here has made the link between monumental sculpture and sexual desire as literal as a green, abstracted Christmas tree that looked disconcertingly like a “plug anal” – the mildly more polite French term for a butt plug. The Los Angeles provocateur, or whose aggressive sculptures,installations and videos hold in the past depicted Snow White in sexually compromised positions and figures wearing George Bush masks copulating with pigs, had installed the inflatable sculpture in the middle of Pariss elegant state Vendme, or domestic to the French justice ministry and the Ritz hotel. Yet less than a day after its installation it was gone – a victim of the conservative populist backlash that has upended French politics over the past year.
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Source: theguardian.com