Paola Antonelli

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Full Name	Paola Antonelli
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	May 13, 1963(1963-05-13)
Age	61
Birthplace	Sassari
Country	Italy
Birth City	Sardinia
Horoscope	Taurus

Paola Antonelli Biography

Paola Antonelli is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on May 13, 1963 in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. Paola Antonelli (born 1963 in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy) is an Italian writer an editor, designer, and curator. Her family is Lombard origins. Her current position is Senior Curator for the Department of Architecture & Design and also the director for R&D for The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City.

Antonelli was appointed to MoMA on February 24, 1994. She is now a curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design at the museum. Her first exhibition that was highly acclaimed for MoMA, “Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design” (1995) was then followed with “Thresholds: Contemporary Design from the Netherlands” (1996), “Achille Castiglioni: Design!” (1997-98), “Projects 66: Campana/Ingo Maurer” (1999), “Open Ends,” and “Matter” (September 2000-February 2001). Her show “Workspheres” (2/8-4/22/2001) was dedicated to the concept of the work environment of the future. In 2005, she organized the exhibition titled “Safe: Design Takes on Risk” for MoMA.

Antonelli was recognized with an AIGA Medal in 2015 for “expanding the influence of design in everyday life by sharing fresh and incisive observations and curating provocative exhibitions at MoMA”. She was rated one of the one hundred most powerful people in the world of art by Art Review and Surface Magazine.

In 2017, Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher curated “Items: Is Fashion Modern?,” an exhibition that explores 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a strong impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries The Museum of Modern Art, New York and taught a related massive open online course Fashion as Design.

30. Antonelli, Paola. Working Spaces. Design Modern and contemporary Work Styles. Museum of Modern Art, 2001. 31. Antonelli, Paola, and Steven Guarnaccia. Achille Castiglioni. Corraini Editore, 2006.

Paola Antonelli Net Worth

Paola Antonelli is one of the richest Art Historian from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paola Antonelli 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

While she was awarded an architectural laureate degree of the Politecnico di Milano university in 1990, she’s never been an architect. Antonelli has been curator of numerous design and architecture exhibitions across Italy, France, and Japan. She was an editor in the Domus magazine (1987-91) Domus magazine (1987-91) as well as the design editor for Abitare magazine (1992-94). She also contributed writing for a variety of magazines, including Metropolis The Harvard Design Review, I.D. magazine Paper, Metropolitan Home, Harper’s Bazaar, and Nest. In 2014, she received an honorary doctorate from The Royal College of Art.

From 1991 to 1993 Antonelli was an instructor from 1991 to 1993 at from 1991 to 1993 at the University of California, Los Angeles and taught design theory and history. Since the beginning of 2003 she started teaching the design theory course in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She also has given lectures elsewhere on architecture and design in Europe and in the United States and served on numerous international architecture and design jury panels.

She curated the exhibition entitled “Safe” in 2005 based on her show at the International Design Conference in Aspen (August 20–23, 2003), similarly entitled “Safe: Design Takes on Risk.” Other recent projects include a book about food from the world over, as examples of distinctive design, and a television program on design. As a curator, Antonelli has added various video games to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and she has been attempting to include Boeing 747 in MoMA’s permanent collection as well.

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Paola Ranked on the list of most popular Art Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Paola Antonelli celebrates birthday on May 13 of every year.