MOCA

+81 interviewed designers who focus on graphic design in the art world.

「アートシーンにおけるグラフィックの役割と可能性」を探るべく、世界中の美術館やギャラリー、アートフェアに着目。ヴィジュアル・アイデンティティ（VI）を中心に、アート界におけるグラフィック・デザインに焦点を当て、制作を担当したデザイナーと、依頼主である美術館側の双方へ取材を敢行した。

THE PROGRAM WILL EVOLVE DURING THE EXHIBITION PERIOD

Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates Inc., Stardust Hotel and Casino Neon Sign, Las Vegas, 1968, lightjet color print, 23 x 16

The LA art scene...if its good enough for Jeffery Deitch it's good enough for me..

»Data Diaries«, 2003 by Cory Arcangel.
Sometimes it’s important when you put things online that they don’t look like art

The Vuitton store at the MOCA Murakami exhibit: NY Times

Now that fashion endorsements by Hollywood stars are as common as ragweed, progressive fashion makers are moving on. “To be perceived as cutting edge, they must make use of a different kind of celebrity,” said Ms. Currid, the author of the Warhol book. “They need an art star.”
Ruth La Ferla in The NY Times

Interesting (and inevitable) article in the NY Times Style Section today about the Louis Vuitton Store at the MOCA/Murakami exhibit. It makes the larger point that art, like celebrity is being spliced frantically into fashion's gene pool to keep the whole thing ticking. 1000 thoughts are unspooling . What if the art booms ends abruptly? What does the fashion world wants from art apart from pretty pictures and easy cachet? Just how big is the overlap between an art audience and a fashion audience ANYWAY? It is like one gallery owner in Paris hissed "Art today is for the very rich and fashion is for the middle class who want to fool each other into thinking they are rich" . ...Just coming back to after a loooooong night of nightcrawling and will post more + a POV on LA nightlife as soon as the word machine kicks in.

Example Of A Lawrence Weiner Work Referring To An Art Piece Yet To Be Built