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Not so very long ago, while making my way through a droll little house museum in the South of France, I mistook a well-appointed drawing room for the gift shop. So, in what I thought was the tabletop department, I picked up a Louis the Somethingth something and, finding no price tag on the bottom, turned to the guard-salesclerk and asked, "Combien?" I did not acquire said objet. (Art 1, Mercantilism 0.)
The times, it seems, have caught up to me. Bang in the middle of the new Murakami retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, there is a Louis kiosk--Louis Vuitton, that is. The museum receives no revenue or rental income from the boutique, ...