THE TIME OF ROTH TIME

Dieter Roth, a great and prodigious artist who rebelled against the establishment, is too little appreciated in the United States. The only show of his I ever saw was at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago a couple of decades ago. But I've admired him for many years, ever since knowing some of his associates, the poet Emmett Williams, for instance, and others who were part of the Fluxus group in the '60s.

Now, at last, he has a posthumous retrospective -- he died in 1998 -- at New York's Museum of Modern Art, entitled "Roth Time," with installations as well at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. Have a look at the very cool online exhibition.

Some other Roth stuff to look at: 58 works of his at the Tate in London; two collages in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma, "Games After the Play or Before the Play" and "Are You Seriously Looking for Ernestine...." and "Rubber Stamp Box" at the MCA in Chicago. Oh, here's a postcard series, "Six Piccadillies" and what they cost.