Paola Antonelli Promoted to Senior Curator in MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design

Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, announced that Paola Antonelli has been promoted to Senior Curator in MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design.

Ms. Antonelli joined the Museum as Associate Curator in 1994, and had held the position of Curator since 2000.

"The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit and is among the highest distinctions the Museum can offer," remarks Mr. Lowry.

"In her 13 years at the Museum, Paola Antonelli has successfully helped to establish design as a significant area of study and has promoted its wider understanding by an ever-growing and appreciative audience."

She is currently working on Design and the Elastic Mind, an exhibition on science, design, and innovation that will open at MoMA on February 24, 2008.

Ms. Antonelli has lectured worldwide in settings ranging from peer conferences to global interdisciplinary gatherings such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, and she has served on several international architecture and design juries.