Slippery Conduct

In regards to the “art” exhibit at the Walker Art Center, a wire-mesh wooden box with lizards, snakes, scorpions and crickets: As the great poet Alice Walker said, animals exist for their own reasons. They do not exist for our own amusement, entertainment, experimentation or for our “art” exhibits. Sad typical animal exploitation. Did those at the Walker who approved this live animal exhibit consider that this display, the setting, all the people approaching it, might frighten or traumatize the animals? Or is modern art and the new Walker above any trivial concerns of animal suffering? The Walker Art Center needs to be better than Petco or the Como Park Zoo. Human art is everywhere, but human art is not a box of imprisoned reptiles.
Frank Erickson
Minneapolis