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'Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection' an exhibition that highlights how #CooperHewitt acquires new work to shape the collection to better reflect current issues and design’s evolving role in daily interactions.
Last Friday we hosted a curator-led tour of Cooper Hewitt’s new show "Acquired!", featuring an interactive installation of Stamen’s watercolor maps.
You can visit the show in person through September 2, 2024, and read more on our blog: https://stamen.com/aquired-a-curator-led-tour-of-cooper-hewitts-new-show-featuring-an-interactive-installation-of-stamens-watercolor-maps/
#Smithsonian #CooperHewitt #NYC #NewYorkCity #maps #cartography #design #watercolor
Last Friday I had the pleasure of being hosted by Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Curators Matilda McQuaid, Andrea Lipps and Cindy Trope at a visit to Cooper Hewitt in New York City. They’ve acquired our watercolor maps into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian! And they’re on display in the galleries. So I called up my...
Our #watercolor map style will be on display in New York at the Cooper Hewitt (the Smithsonian National Design Museum) starting on March 16. The exhibition, called “Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection,” highlights more than 150 new works acquired by the Cooper Hewitt since 2017, including the Stamen Watercolor map which was added to the collection in 2021.
https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/exhibition-cooper-hewitt-celebrate-recent-acquisitions-collection
#maps #cartography #design #OpenStreetMap #OpenSource #CooperHewitt #Smithsonian
This March, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection,” an exhibition highlighting how the museum acquires new work to shape the collection to better reflect current issues and design’s evolving role in daily interactions. Presented on the second-floor galleries, the exhibition will feature more than 150 works, including objects that represent the museum’s collecting legacy, as well as works brought into the collection since 2017 that demonstrate what it means to be a design museum today.
Eye-popping poppies @cooperhewitt!
Can you believe this was made 101 years ago?
It was designed by Paul Poiret (French, 1879–1944) in 1912 💜 💜 💜 #WallpaperWednesday #museums #wallpaper #cooperhewitt