This week: Significant Objects X Paola Antonelli

[Editors' note: This week Jim Shepard, Scarlett Thomas, Ron Currie Jr., Helen DeWitt, and Matt Brown will give Significance to objects picked out for and donated to us by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design for the Museum of Modern Art. As fans of her exhibitions ranging from Humble Masterpieces to Safe to Design and the Elastic Mind, we were thrilled to have her curate a week for us. Her statement follows.]

Curated by Paola Antonelli

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