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Click to view a clip of the MOCA GALA 2010, "Artist's Museum Happening- Doug Aitken." NY Times Magazine, online blog.
Two lines of drummers led guests from "The Artist's Museum" exhibition, a
survey of L.A. art from 1980 to the present, into a huge tent with flashing
lights where the Happening took place. Black-and-white op art patterns and
posters lined the walls, and PVC pipes and glowing fluorescent tubes
programmed with different colors and sequences snaked across the ceiling.
"It's very early 'Tron,'" observed the architect Barbara Bestor, who
designed the space.
--New York Times Magazine, "It Happened One Night",Steffie Nelson, November 15, 2010 PDF
The neon tubes designed by Los Angeles Architect Barbara Bestor jig-jagged
across the ceiling and bathed guests in a psychedelic glow while
simultaneously evoking John Baldessari's freeway ceiling that he created for
the Magritte Exhibition at LACMA only a few years ago.
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Huffington Post, "WHAT A PARTY!: MOCA Rocks Doug Aitkin's Art Happening" Kimberly Brooks, November 15, 2010 PDF
According to event producer Carleen Cappelletti of Bounce, the MOCA
"happening" required 40 people for pitching the dinner tent, 65 valets, 202
waiters, 100 staffers with walkie-talkies and 90 workers for production,
lights and sound. An overhead sculpture designed by architect Barbara Bestor
took 2,900 feet of PVC pipe and 192 meter-length lighting tubes.
--LA Times,"Scene & Heard: 'Artist's Museum Happening' gala at MOCA", Ellen Olivier, November 21, 2010 FULL ARTICLE