Roberta Smith Quotes
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I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.
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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.
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You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
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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.
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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.
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Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.