PIN-UP #37: Museum

The PIN–UP Museum Issue! In this first in a series of guest-edited issues, curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen pose two essential questions: is The Museum a space that can nurture and inspire the imagination; or is it a place of ruin where objects go to die? In other words: is it necessary? Or should the museum go away? Find out more on 208 beautifully designed pages, including nine collectible covers featuring Martine Syms, Carrie Mae Weems, Smiljan Radic, Itusko Hasegawa, and more. Museum-worthy.

Also in the issue: The past, present, and future of living museums; The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’s director Joanna Mytkowska on opening Poland’s first museum since 1938; Adam Pendleton on Carrie Mae Weems’s Museums series; Beatrice Grenier on the relationship between museums and landscape; five questions for critic Kenneth Frampton; an inside look at the queer communities featured in Dream Homes, a PIN–UP film commission for the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s triennial; profiles on artists Arash Nassiri, Andy Medina, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles; a conversation between architects Mariam Issoufou and Adam Caruso on their relationship to building, visiting, and teaching museums; a visual musing on muses by Thyago Sainte; Molteni’s design museum; de Padova’s effortless contemporaneity; Soft Baroque’s reinterpretation of the classic Landi chair; and HOT 37, PIN–UP’s ultimate list of what’s currently sizzling in design.