On view at MoMA through March 14, 2011, this is one of the most innovative and engaging exhibitions of the season. Celebrating the museum’s recent acquisition of a mass-produced kitchen designed by the female architect Grete Schütte-Lihotzky in the 1920s which was installed by the thousands in post-WWI Germany, the stunning show is jam-packed with objects, videos, photographs and ephemera revealing the ties that bound kitchen design to social experience throughout the twentieth century. Aidan O’Connor, a 2008 graduate of ADHT’s MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design and now a Curatorial Assistant at MoMA, worked on the show and its website. In October, she discussed her work on the show with a rapt audience of students enrolled in my course, “Senior Seminar: Exhibiting Cultures.”
– Laura Auricchio, Assistant Professor of Art History
For more information, please visit: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/counter_space
