Monthly Archives: June, 2009
Design Museums Statements #12
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
«Constituer un des secteurs de la collection du Musée national d’art moderne n’allait pas, bien sûr, sans quelques contraintes. Ne serait-ce qu’en regard des autres collections – peinture, sculpture, dessin, photographie, architecture –, dont le voisinage imposait une sélection extrêmement rigoureuse. La collection de design se devait en effet, par son originalité et ses spécificités, [...]
Design Museums Statements #11
MoMA, New York
«The Museum of Modern Art was created in 1929 for the express purpose of furthering and supporting the art of its own time, for “encouraging and developing the study of modern arts and the application of such arts to manufacture and practical life”.»
MoMA, New York
ref. Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Objects of Design, 2003; quoting the [...]
Design Museums Statements #10
Cooper-Hewitt, New York
«Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming.»
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
ref. Paul Warwick Thompson, director,* website
«Today, design is among the most accessible [...]
Design Museums Statements #9
Neue Sammlung, Munich
«Die Neue Sammlung [Munich] was founded in pursuit of a vision. “Humanizing society through design” was the way one of our directors described this goal. Today, we may no longer believe in this dream, something that manifests itself in objects. And yet almost a century after the collection was established, the items of artistic striving [...]
Cold War Modern Design 1945-70
The lost identity of an exhibition?
La Guerra Fredda - Cold War. Arte e design in un mondo diviso. 1945-1970
Mart (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto)
Rovereto, 28 March to 26 July 2009
(Cold War Modern. Design 1945-1970, Victoria & Albert Museum
London, 25 September 2008 to 11 January 2009)
review by Maddalena Dalla Mura and Gabriele Toneguzzi
After being on show [...]
Design Museums Statements #8
Neues Museum in Nuremberg
«“Art and Design under a single roof”. This has been the motto taken by Neues Museum in Nuremberg—whose sub-title declares it to be the State Museum for Art and Design—ever since it was founded [...] in 2000. [...] tretating them as equals, as does the Neues Museum in Nuremberg with its Art and Design collections, [...]
Design Museums Statements #7
Wolfsonian Museum, Miami
«The Wolfsonian - Florida International University uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, political, and technological changes that have transformed our world. It encourages people to see the world in new ways, and to learn from [...]
Multiple voices
Vienna, MAK
Discourses and voices on design are multiplying. Museums are no exceptions.
Consider for instance one European capital city like Vienna, where the MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst is acknowledged and renowned as a museum of design, but where other institutions – the Design Forum at Museum Quartier, the Möbel Museum, the Wien Museum and the [...]
