The recent exhibition of Paul Thek’s work at Hannah Hoffman Gallery was surprisingly pretty. The Thek it portrayed seemed to have been an introspective sort, given to naive drawings of flowers and sen…
When accounts of American art in the late 1980s and 1990s are written, recurrent themes will emerge: the body, sexual identity, childhood, mortality. And all of them, directly or indirectly, link up t…
The plan was that, on a Wednesday morning in July, I would take the bus to Southampton, New York, where a publicist would pick me up and drive me to the Watermill Center about five minutes…
This week we check out Byron Kim's monochromatic painting of the night sky at James Cohan, wonder how much oil paint Allison Schulnik's used in her canvases at ZieherSmith, and travel back to a time …
Recently uncovered photographs by Peter Hujar provide an intimate, often unsettling record of Paul Thek as he fashioned the self-portrait figure for his now vanished 1967 installation The Tomb…