Tagged: painting

NYC: Bring Your Girlfriend to See Paul Thek’s Rubber Flesh + Wild Bad Paintings at the Whitney

STORY BY: Naomi Zeichner

Paul Thek was an American artist who spent most of his career living in Europe. People knew him vaguely from the wax caste of his body that came to be know as the “dead hippy” … read more »

POSTED November 16, 2010 7:01PM IN ART+CULTURE NEWS TAGS: Howard Finster, Ida Eckbald, painting, Paul Thek, Whitney Museum

In Matthew Chambers We See Ourselves, and Cats and Beer

STORY BY: Peter Macia

Someone once asked each FADER editor to paint a self-portrait and, unsurprisingly, each one of the finished works looked like the same smeary pile of acrylic crap. Okay that never happened but if it did … read more »

POSTED October 15, 2009 10:46AM IN ART+CULTURE NEWS Comments (1) TAGS: Matthew Chambers, painting, Rental Gallery