I&CO founding partner Rei Inamoto speaks with the world’s leading practitioners of creativity from industries such as art, design, architecture, cuisine, and much more, to offer a glimpse into the minds of what it takes to build a successful career. In each episode, these creative luminaries share their beginnings, intimate moments of success and failure, and pieces of advice for work and life.
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You could never fully know what life has in store for you. But when it comes to life opportunities, Paola Antonelli shares how being in the "right place" makes a difference.
On this week’s episode, we welcome Paola, the Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), to hear about the beginnings of her career, life events that became curation opportunities, personal emotional challenges, and how she found herself overcoming these.
Timestamps:
- 00:00:00 Intro
- 00:01:47 Journey to becoming a curator
- 00:05:40 Finding opportunities to curate a show
- 00:06:00 “It was just being at the right place at the right time, or just being in the right place, period”
- 00:09:21 What are key turning points in your career?
- 00:12:30 Unwelcoming experiences in New York
- 00:15:06 “Depression is a reality and I needed to learn to deal with it”
- 00:17:22 Life advice: “Learn how to surf”
- 00:18:51 Three takeaways
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