{"id":645,"date":"2004-04-23T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/dissing_fluxus\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T15:54:30","slug":"dissing_fluxus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/dissing_fluxus.html","title":{"rendered":"DISSING FLUXUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Back in March, we took notice of the <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040301.shtml#73528\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Dieter Roth retrospective<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> at New York&#8217;s Museum of<br \/>\nModern Art. ArtsJournal colleague<STRONG> <\/STRONG><A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/#75636\"><STRONG><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>John Perreault recently reviewed it<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A> and<br \/>\nquoted Roth dissing the Fluxus group with which he was&nbsp;associated:<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>In fact, Roth hated Fluxus: &#8220;It was the club of the untalented who made a<br \/>\nverbal virtue of their lack of talent so that nobody could say they had no talent,&#8221; he told an<br \/>\ninterviewer. &#8220;The modesty that they ascribed to themselves was actually a good insight in that<br \/>\nsense. Because they had to be modest because they were so incapable.&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>Ain&#8217;t that priceless?<BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, we took notice of the Dieter Roth retrospective at New York&#8217;s Museum of Modern Art. ArtsJournal colleague John Perreault recently reviewed it and quoted Roth dissing the Fluxus group with which he was&nbsp;associated: In fact, Roth hated Fluxus: &#8220;It was the club of the untalented who made a verbal virtue of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}