Roberta Smith
Roberta Smith
Roberta Smith is an American art critic for the New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
CountryUnited States of America
art certain coming performance quite
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
art normally
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
founder great instincts might prime
Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
amateur bush computer george hacker known learned serious
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.
easy obsessions others poetry thus
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
although large
I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.