The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler

Now at the Museum of Arts and Design, *The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler* surveys the designer’s work through objects that move between ceramics, interiors, and pop-coded sculpture. Adler appears as the organizing presence, framing how a personal brand became a vocabulary of forms and surfaces. In a city where design and commerce often share a single address, the exhibition reads as a record of New York’s taste-making machinery as much as an individual career. Its critical edge lies in how plainly it shows irony functioning as a selling point.