Senior curator Paola Antonelli showcases data visualization as a modern art form.
Opening September 27 at the Museum of Modern Art, Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design highlights how creators translate complex data into comprehensible visuals. The exhibition features works from the museum’s permanent collection, including climatologist Ed Hawkins’ Warming Stripes. This piece uses a progression from deep blue to bright red stripes to represent annual average temperatures since 1850. The exhibit also examines personal data through the Dear Data project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. Their correspondence includes hand-drawn visualizations of daily habits, such as weekly cursing frequencies, to foster human connection through statistics. Senior curator Paola Antonelli, who began collecting these works in 2008, states the mission is to represent the art of our time. The pieces range from large scientific phenomena to intimate personal records, demonstrating how design renders statistical information accessible to a wide audience.
Designers can use these techniques to transform abstract data sets into legible, emotionally resonant narratives. The exhibition demonstrates that even personal, everyday metrics offer opportunities for creative visualization and professional storytelling.
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