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Credits: Marcus Yam for The New York Times
LACMA/Art Resource, NY
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE
Watermill Center Collection
Peter Hujar Archive, Matthew Marks
PAUL THEK
Diver, A Retrospective
February 5 through May 1, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, February 4, 2011
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
Press Clippings (download as Pdf):
New York Times (three clippings)
The New Yorker
The Village Voice
Art in America
Carnegie Museum of Art is proud to present Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the critically acclaimed first major exhibition to explore the work of the legendary artist. Defying classification, Paul Thek (1933–1988) the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his work in the 1960s and early ’70s, is the subject of an upcoming retrospective opening at Carnegie Museum of Art on February 5, 2011, and co-organized by Carnegie Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The exhibition debuted at the Whitney, where critics from the New York Times called it “a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective”; The New Yorker called the exhibition “remarkable . . . [Thek] is too little known, and his rediscovery promises to have a galvanizing effect on young artists”; and Time Out New York said of Thek, “[t]his pioneer of installation art dodged many of the isms that defined his era and came up with a style completely his own.”