McCarthy’s Tree to rise again in LA

Paul McCarthy’s green inflatable butt plug—or “Tree”, as the artist calls it—so offended right-wing Parisians in 2014 that a group of vandals deflated the 80-foot-tall work soon after it was installed in the Place Vendôme. Later, a man even attacked McCarthy himself. At the time, McCarthy told Agence France-Presse, “I don’t want to be mixed up in this type of controversy and physical violence, or even to keep taking the risks associated with this