Paul McCarthy in "Transformation" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Paul McCarthy, from the "Transformation" episode in Season 5 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Transformation" premiered in October 2009 on PBS.
The segment begins with a series of motorized architectural works installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2008. Paul McCarthy’s interest in performance is introduced through a series of minimal videos in which the artist uses his body as a tool. Later works show the artist performing similarly absurd tasks, only this time adopting a character and on a sound stage.
Paul McCarthy was born in 1945 in Salt Lake City. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Consulting Director: Charles Atlas. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Director of Photography: Philippe Charluet, Bob Elfstrom, Richard Numeroff, Ian Serfontein, & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Cornish, Doug Dunderdale, Roger Phenix, Paul Stadden, & Merce Williams. Assistant Camera: Gideon Jennings, Clair Popkin, Michael Pruitt-Bruun, Adriano Vasquez, & Claudia Woloshin. On Screen Interviews: Ann Marie Peña & Damon McCarthy.
Major underwriting for “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season Five provided by: National Endowment for the Arts; Public Broadcasting Service; Agnes Gund; Bloomberg; The Nathan Cummings Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Broad Art Foundation; Korea Foundation; & The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
Full credits available at art21.org/watc...
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[@gcf6483]

One of the most brilliant artists of the whole contemporary period!! Thanks to the heavens, Paul McCarthy's work exists!!

[@BjornVeno]

my first introductions to performance art was the boxing clove video

[@tedecker3792]

January 2025: sorry Paul lost his home in the Altadena fire.

[@eduardoinagaki]

Dude is just genius

[@frc1255]

Only 10 comments? Interesting.

[@raphfung]

Experimental Dancer !

[@brianOblivion2]

the donald trump of the art world...

[@RYKAZARD]

How so ?

[@rsduffild]

'the painter' is good...I think when he is hammering the pipe into the other work kind of sums him up tho...an idiot who has 'fallen into a pile of 'fame' '...big deal...pfhhhttt...everyone dies...the universe ends...NEXT!!!