Paola Antonelli

Art and Obsolescence

This week we’re visiting the the one and only Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. Paola is quite frankly is a legend – not only because she made MoMA’s first ever homepage on the World Wide Web in 1995 – but for decades she has been pushing the envelope and really reshaping what it means for museums to collect. For instance, what does it mean for a museum to collect something that is in in the public domain, and something that is rather intangible, such as the @ symbol? So far on the show we’ve visited with many curators of contemporary art, but the picture would be incomplete without design – after all it is all around us – the device you’re reading this on, the app you use to download this podcast every week, the ATM at your bank, the building where you go to work, the chair you sit in every day, and the video games you play – it’s all design. Curators like Paola help guide us to see and understand these things more closely and learn about the who, what, where, when, and why of the designed world around us. Tune in to hear Paola’s story!
Links from the conversation with Paola
> https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1995/mutantmaterials
> https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/designandviolence
> http://momarnd.moma.org/salons/
> https://www.instagram.com/design.emergency/

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