Art of Noise
Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Devon Turnbull, Verner Panton, Mario Bellini, Thilo Oerke, Rosita Tonmöbel, Mathieu Lehanneur, Tom Sachs, Walter Dorwin Teague, Wendell Castle, Dieter Rams, Hans Gugelot, Daisuke Kajiwara, Jonathan Ive, John Vassos, Alfred Weiland, Selden T. Williams, Akio Morita, Kozo Ohsone, Milton Glaser, Peter Saville, Takenobu Igarashi, Gottlieb Soland, Victor Moscoso, teenage engineering
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128
10am-6pm
Admission
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About
Art of Noise shows how design shapes the way we experience music—how and where we listen to it, how it's communicated visually, and what we choose to hear. For many people, these design choices feel like a part of the music itself; they become a key part of how we remember and understand sound in a multisensory way—through our ears, our eyes, and our sense of touch. Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and adapted to the history of the New York music scene for its East Coast presentation, Art of Noise presents hundreds of works that have shaped our relationship to music over the past century. From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to sound systems, the exhibition demonstrates how our experiences are built by both the sounds we hear and the objects that help illustrate or activate them, whether through color and composition or through form, material, and mechanics.