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Butt Plug

Anish Kapoor's Dirty Corner at Chateau de Versailles. (Photo: Rindoff/Charriau/Getty Images)

Vandals Spray Paint Anish Kapoor’s Vaginal Steel Sculpture at Versailles

On Wednesday morning, management at Versailles found the work spray painted with yellow paint.
By Alanna Martinez
Chocolate Factory, Paul McCarthy at Monnaie de Paris (Photo by Marc Domage, courtesy de l’artiste et Galerie Hauser & Wirth)

Paul McCarthy’s Butt Plug Returns in Chocolate Form: A First-Hand Account From Paris

Butt plugs and dildo gnomes are pretty innocuous compared to what you see when you pass through either set of double doors in the back of the room.
By Janelle Zara
The remains of what was once great butt plug art. (Photo courtesy MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

Art World Abstracts: Down Goes the Paul McCarthy Butt Plug in Paris, And More!

Down goes the butt plug. After a contentious few days where the city of Paris brewed up a mini culture war against "Tree," a sculpture by Paul McCarthy that closely resembled a certain thing one sticks up another thing, offended Parisians deflated the art in the middle of the night.
By Nate Freeman
Tree, by Paul McCarthy (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Why Are Parisians So Afraid of a Paul McCarthy Butt Plug Sculpture?

By Nate Freeman
By Alex Bedder

Five Essay Prompts for <em>Girls</em> 2×4: ‘It’s a Shame About Ray’

By Drew Grant, Noam Cohen and Alex Bedder
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