Paola Antonelli

Who is Paola Antonelli?

Paola Antonelli is a senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. She was recently rated one of the one hundred most powerful people in the world of art by Art Review.

Although a recipient of a laurea degree in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano university in 1990, she has never worked as an architect. Antonelli has curated several architecture and design exhibitions in Italy, France, and Japan. She has been a contributing editor for Domus magazine and the design editor of Abitare magazine. She has also contributed articles to several publications, among them Metropolis, the Harvard Design Review, I.D. magazine, Paper, Metropolitan Home, Harper's Bazaar, and Nest.