Subj: Norm Battles The Walker! New Bylines!
Date: 10/23/2001 8:02:16 PM Central Daylight Time
From: cosmoetica@att.net Sent from the Internet (Details)
About three weeks ago, I made up photocopies of several of my large
drawings and sent them to
the Walker Art Center along with a nice letter asking the Walker to do a
showing of my work. I got
a form letter back from somebody named Phillip, who was sorry to tell me
that the Walker could not
show my work because the exhibition schedule was full. Well, I was not
surprised, I have given the
Walker an opportunity to show my work every year or two for the past 40
years and while the
Phillips have changed, the content of the form letter has not.
The Walker would certainly argue that Norman J. Olson is not an
internationally known art world
character in the first place, and in the second place, his drawings are
simply not good enough to hang
in the area’s premier showplace for modern art. The Walker folks may be
correct on both counts.
It is not uncommon for artists to overrate their own art. On the other
hand....
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Dan Schneider, cosmoetica@att.net
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