Dreamspace Disneyland – Paul McCarthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Mikhail Bakhtin, Me and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride--Originally published in Seattle Post Intelligencer March 17, 2013
· SEATTLE ARTS AND CULTURE Dreamspace Disneyland – Paul McCarthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Mikhail Bakhtin, Me and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride By xavier_lopez_jr on March 17, 2013 at 11:49 PM · Awhile back I was lucky enough to have been in the audience at the Seattle Art Museum auditorium when one of my all-time favorite artists, Paul McCarthy presented an amazingly watered-down overview of his important place in history–I assume that this was because somebody decided that the audience would not be able to handle his more provocative, scatological and political work that takes on Kristeva-like mixes of blood and viscera, sado-masochism, George Bush and her majesty the Queen. Who knows, though. This person or persons may have even been right, but because of them what followed was really tepid and n...