Paul Thek Diver, a Retrospective at the WHITNEY Part I

Continuing in the great “halfassed“ tradition, James Kalm shows up a day late missing the press preview for the opening of Paul Thek “Diver“. No matter, we simply go on the Down Low and document the retrospective of this “re-discovered“ artist. In the mid 60s Thek was compared to Andy Warhol by the likes of Gregory Battcock. His eccentric hyper realistic sculptures of meat were displayed in pristine Plexiglas cubes, simultaneously paroded and critiqued the emergent Minimalist work of the time. Despite h