Press Room

Welcome to Cooper-Hewitt’s online Press Office. Members of the press can view information for current and upcoming exhibitions and access the press release archive. High-resolution images for publication are available through the password-protected Press Image Gallery.

Contact information for media only:

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Department of Communications & Marketing
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128-0669

Jennifer Northrop
Director of Communications & Marketing

Laurie Olivieri Bohlk
Associate Director of Communications & Marketing

Telephone: 212-849-8420
Email: CooperHewittPress@si.edu
Fax: 212-849-1549

Recent News

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the 14th Annual National Design Awards

Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 14th annual National Design Awards program. Today, Cooper-Hewitt acting director Caroline Baumann announced the winners of the 2013 National Design Awards, which recognize excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines. The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Thursday, Oct. 17, at Pier Sixty in New York.

Learning the ABCs of Design

Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate NYCxDesign—New York City’s inaugural citywide event to showcase and promote design of all disciplines—with several educational initiatives, including a programmatic takeover of Public School 3 in lower Manhattan, Design Tales for toddlers and a design expo for teachers.

Cooper-Hewitt Announces Harlem Focus Series

Friday, April 19, 2013

This spring, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will launch the Harlem Focus programming series highlighting designers, architects and artists whose work engages and affects the local Harlem community. The museum will feature a series of talks curated and led by architectural consultant and Harlem historian John Reddick at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Center (111 Central Park North, New York).

New Collection Acquisitions Span Centuries and Disciplines at Cooper-Hewitt

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Design Watch members have chosen architect and glassmaker Carlo Scarpa’s “Model 3461” vase, made at the Venini glassworks, as a gift to join the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Members of Design Watch, museum supporters, were invited to hear object presentations from curators in each of the museum’s four curatorial departments and vote on a design object to be purchased using proceeds from their membership dues. The museum today announced the acquisition, along with several other works.
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