Pin-Up Issue 37 – Museum
Fall/Winter 2024
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 Radić, Itusko Hasegawa, and more. Museum-worthy.
MARTINE SYMS
The artist on creating alter egos, the limitations of working with museums, and the films that shaped her practice
Interview by Jordan Richman
Portraits by Zoë Ghertner
SMILJAN RADIĆ
The Chilean architect’s radical collection of ephemeral architecture finds a new home, plus his love of inflatables, and why the best museums are free
Interview by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen
Portraits by Paula Zeigler
ITSUKO HASEGAWA
The pioneering Japanese architect’s work connects nature and architecture by filtering tradition through postmodernism
Interview by Niels Olsen and Fredi Fischli
Portraits by Satomi Yamauchi
MAX RICHTER
The classical artist transformed a tractor shed in the Oxfordshire countryside into a sustainable multimedia studio
Interview by India Ennenga
Portraits by Federike Helwig
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; Béatrice 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.
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PIN–UP is a magazine that captures an architectural spirit, rather than focusing on technical details of design, by featuring interviews with architects, designers, and artists, and presenting work as an informal work in progress – a fun assembly of ideas, stories and conversations, all paired with cutting-edge photography and artwork. Both raw and glossy, the magazine is a nimble mix of genres and themes, finding inspiration in the high and the low by casting a refreshingly playful eye on rare architectural gems, amazing interiors, smart design, and that fascinating area where those areas connect with contemporary art. In short, PIN–UP is pure architectural entertainment!
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