And I believe LA Country hosted a Ferragamo shoe exhibition a few
years ago under the general rubric of "design."

As an extension of the current heartfelt spirit of bipartisanship, I
will observe that we might consider the idea that one person's design
statement may be another's sell-out indicator, and another's symptom
of pandering, and yet other's incisive documentation of the high/low
fusion in contemporary culture.

This is not to say that I don't have my own personal opinion
regarding relevance and appropriateness within the museum setting.
Bernard Barryte

>Museum folks,
>
>The nice little discussion on Coke brings up a somewhat similar situation
>that I don't believe has been discussed here (if it has been, my
>apologies and I'm off to the archives). My sweet wife reports that the
>Guggenheim is currently showing a bunch of Armani clothes. According to
>her, it is not a retrospective and there is no context that would tend to
>differentiate it from a regular commercial store display.
>What'supwiththat? Happy trails.  David
>
>David Haynes     [log in to unmask]      San Antonio
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Stanford University
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