Norm Magnusson - Exhibition Proposal
funism at 30 - The art and inspiration of Norm Magnusson (exhibition proposal) When I moved to New York City in 1982, I lived just a few blocks away from the lively 57th street gallery scene, a source of free entertainment, lots of interesting art and more than just a little bit of head-scratching. I had never studied art or art history and was woefully ill-prepared to make any sense of what I was seeing. But still, one of the great attributes of art is that one can be drawn to it even without any understanding of it and I was drawn to a bunch of it. Some was more sorta decorative, landscapes or portraits or whatnot that I felt capable enough of appreciating (or not) on a purely aesthetic level. But much of it was stuff that was not like that at all. The art world was still changing rapidly post and during the influences of Warhol and Lichtenstein and John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg and so many others and there was a lot of art out there that rebuffed interpretation by t