# Paul Thek
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paul thek (November 2, 1933 – August 10, 1988) was an American painter and, later, sculptor and installation artist. Thek was active in both the United States and Europe during his life, staging a number of ambitious installations and sculptural works throughout his lifetime. Posthumously, he has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and his work is held in numerous collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Kolumba, the Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne.
A brush with… Mandy El-Sayegh
Mandy El-Sayegh talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. El-Sayegh, born in Selangor, Malaysia, in 1985 and now living in London, makes paintings, sculptures, installations, vide…
Deathly Fascinating
When I went to the Whitney Museum in December, I had no idea who Paul Thek was...
VTV Classics (r3): Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art / ZKM Karlsruhe (2008)
Paul Thek (1933-1988) is considered an artist with cult status. In 2008, the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany) staged a comprehensive retrospective of his oeuvre. The exhibition “Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art” featured more than 300 of Paul Thek’s works, m…
Episode 673 - Andrew Durbin
With THE WONDERFUL WORLD THAT ALMOST WAS: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek (FSG), Andrew Durbin brings us a masterful biography of a pair of artists, their art, gay life pre- and post-Stonewall, and more. We talk about his first exposure to each of their art, why he restricted the biography to t…
Andrew Durbin
A conversation about Durbin's latest book, The Wonderful World That Almost Was, a joint biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.
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Episode 387: Peter Hujar and Paul Thek's "Wonderful World That Almost Was," with writer and Frieze editor Andrew Durbin
Writer and Frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin talks about:
His book tour for "The Wonderful World That Almost Was," which has been hectic; how he became familiar with Peter Hujar's work initially, and why his and Paul Tek's legacies really took off after their deaths; Peter's persona and persona…
Andrew Durbin's "The Wonderful World that Almost Was"
Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Andrew Durbin about his new biography, The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek. A joint portrait of two influential yet under-sung American artists, the book follows Thek and Hujar's romance and deep friendship as it parallels th…
Exploring A Queer Art Legacy ft. Andrew Durbin
Andrew Durbin is the editor in chief of Frieze. In this conversation with host Daniel Spielberger, Durbin chats about his new book The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.
The book chronicles a multi-decade friendship between two queer artists and analyzes their en…
Andrew Durbin & Tash Aw: The Wonderful World That Almost Was
Andrew Durbin’s The Wonderful World That Almost Was unravels, for the first time, the intertwined stories and work of two boundary burning, paradigm-tilting, never more relevant American artists, Peter Hujar and Paul Thek. Weaving together deft art criticism with moving portraits of both men's inne…
The Forum 25 | Alex Da Corte
Ajay Kurian sits down with artist Alex Da Corte, whose recreations, personas and total immersion into figures from Marcel Duchamp to Eminem have made him one of the most distinct and prolific voices working today. So much so that he has been tasked with co-curating the Whitney Museum’s survey on Ro…
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