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DESCRIPTION:May 15 - Aug 14\, 2026\nThe artist Paul Thek had a lifelong obs
 ession with disappearance and often destroyed many of his works. In the 19
 50s\, early in his career\, he moved to Miami where he became part of comm
 unity that included the photographer Peter Hujar and playwright Tennessee 
 Williams. A decade later\, Thek returned to New York City\, but in 1967 he
  vanished from the downtown art scene he helped create—a Fulbright fello
 wship had taken him to the remote Italian island of Ponza. He returned yet
  again in 1976. Thek’s works that re-created human body parts\, known as
  “meat pieces\,” challenged the dominance of Pop art and Minimalism an
 d made him a mythic figure in the art world. In one of his notebooks\, The
 k wrote that he had a “dream of vanishing.” This exhibition at Pace\, 
 named for that phrase\, examines the full arc of his career\, from the mat
 ure canvases he made in the 1960s to his “bad paintings” of the 1980s.
  Thek died from complications of AIDS in 1988. His friend Susan Sontag ded
 icated not one but two books to him.
LOCATION:Pace Gallery\, 540 W 25th St\, New York\, NY 10001\, United States
SUMMARY:Paul Thek: Dream of Vanishing
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 nishing
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