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Santa Goes Sexy in Sweet Exhibition

By ARTINFO

Published: November 29, 2007
NEW YORK—It's not often that Santa and sex toys are mentioned in the same sentence, but in this case, Santa is a sex toy. The Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy opened the exhibition "Peter Paul Chocolates" on November 15 at Maccarone, turning the gallery into a temporary chocolate factory pumping out a thousand 10-inch chocolate figurines-cum-sex toys titled Santa with Butt Plug, each day through December 24. The exhibition comes complete with a candy store shop front and a staff of six, including master chocolatier Peter Greweling. And according to the Times (London), it's the chocolate (supplied by the luxury chocolate company Guittard), and not the sex, that has dealer Michele Maccarone all hot and bothered. "I’ve been eating this chocolate nonstop for over a week,” she told the Times, which reported she was "drawling like an agitated Loyd Grossman," “and I’m, like, raging crazy. I’ve, like, not only broken out in spots, but I went to see my shrink this morning and said: ‘I’m having raging panic attacks’ and she was like, ‘Michele, how much chocolate are you eating?’"
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