In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.

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As evidence of its place in design history, the PRADA phone by LG 1.0 is part of the permanent collection in New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Shanghai.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) lured New York star gallerist Jeffrey Deitch to revamp it last year, and it's abuzz like never before.

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In Tokyo, she became a contemporary art curator before leaving for New York to work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary art

Guggenheim Museum in New York, who then ran the La Jolla (now San Diego) Museum of Contemporary Art, which was then the region's top contemporary art museum.

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Called, rather long-windedly, the Museum of Glass and International Centre for Contemporary Art , it doesn't yet compete with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York state.

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