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Negative NYT review of "USDesign

By Steve Portigal - August 8, 2003

in Object Culture

Negative NYT review of "USDesign 1975-2000," an exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design (formerly the American Craft Museum). The exhibition concentrates mainly on familiar kinds of objects: chairs, clocks, lamps, teapots, telephones, sneakers, ski boots, roller blades, sunglasses, computers and so on. That few of these items have survived their commercial obsolescence well enough to stand up to visual scrutiny in a museum is perhaps neither here nor there. The right organization could still, in theory, bring them to life. But the show's structure does little to animate its contents...the main problem is that it so dimly illuminates the field in general. It fails to grapple with how design has come to pervade our world in all sorts of ways...From designing genes to designing weapons of tightly focused destruction, design today entails a lot more than making consumer goods visually attractive.

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