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The New Yorker Magazine. Goings on About Town, “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen,” at MOMA.
MoMA: Gala Opening, one from a series for the Goings on About Town piece on “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen,” October 18, 2010. As assigned to transcribe the novelty of showcasing a kitchen in a museum!
This gentleman stood out, creating a trompe-l'oeil effect, almost like a part of Tom Wesselmann’s “Still Life #30,” from 1963, but actually he is looking at a photo from the famous “kitchen debate” between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, which took place in a suburban model home at the American National Exhibition, in Moscow, in 1959. The subject was almost still, imperceptibly leaning forward, enthralled in his personal flashbacks of the Cold War.
The New Yorker Magazine
