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When the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) senior curator of architecture and design announced the acquisition of 14 video games in 2012, “all hell broke loose.” In this far-ranging, entertaining, and deeply insightful talk, Paola Antonelli explains why she’s delighted to challenge preconceived ideas about art and galleries, and describes her burning wish to help establish a broader understanding of design […]
Whether openly and actively, or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us, and designers write the initial script that will let us develop and improvise the dialogue […]
MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show ‘Design and the Elastic Mind‘ — full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now. Working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994, she now heads up the gallery’s Architecture and Design department and has worked on shows such as ‘Humble Masterpieces,’ which celebrated traditionally unheralded design icons such as the paperclip; ‘Safe,’ considering issues of protection, and ‘Workspheres,’ a look at contemporary workplace design…