This pales in comparison to the Murakami store that LA MOCA became with his large retrospective there in 2007. The Louis Vuitton logo yardage by Murakami was sold, well, by the yard or foot or inch based on your needs in neat little stretched canvases that now show up at auctions all over the place consigned by disenchanted collectors or profit seeking buyers.

Great story here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/05/…

When I look at the bulk of stuff sold in any museum store these days, I often wish it could be more educational, more elevated, more about art than the silliness of crass commerce aimed at the lowest common denominator.

At least, with the Frye's show there is a conceptual underpinning that speaks to censorship, the art market, and the force of China within that market and, indeed, all commercial markets.

Love seeing the Rob McKenna ad underneath this story.
Greg