Kid around with international artist (4)
I believe the answer is:
dali
'artist' is the definition.
(Salvador Dali)
'kid around with international' is the wordplay.
'around' indicates the central letters.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'international' becomes 'dal' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The middle letter of 'kid' is 'i'.
'i' put after 'dal' is 'DALI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dali that I've seen before include "Salvador --, twentieth century Spanish surrealist painter" , "Surrealist Spanish painter, d. 1989" , "Controversial painter" , "Salvador . . . . was great Spanish surrealist painter" , "Salvador among artists" .)