Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design opens Sunday, September 27, on MoMA’s first floor and runs through June 13, 2027. Paola Antonelli’s exhibition gathers digital and physical work that translates systems into visual form, including Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler’s Calculating Empires. MoMA exhibition page
The subject has a built-in tension: a clean diagram can reveal a mechanism and make unsettled evidence appear comfortably finished. Scale determines which questions survive—centuries compress individual lives; a personal account can make the institution disappear. The best reason to see the show is to find the work that makes its own editorial choices legible. A beautiful visualization is pleasant; one that changes the question earns the wall space.