Back in March, we took notice of the Dieter Roth retrospective at New York’s Museum of
Modern Art. ArtsJournal colleague John Perreault recently reviewed it and
quoted Roth dissing the Fluxus group with which he was associated:
In fact, Roth hated Fluxus: “It was the club of the untalented who made a
verbal virtue of their lack of talent so that nobody could say they had no talent,” he told an
interviewer. “The modesty that they ascribed to themselves was actually a good insight in that
sense. Because they had to be modest because they were so incapable.”
Ain’t that priceless?
