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fek:

Roger Ebert, 2010: “Video games can never be art.”

MoMA, 2012: “Are video games art? They sure are.”

In addition to this, the Museum of the Moving Image is also doing an exhibit on video games (running through early next year).

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    Now I have a good excuse to go back to NYC!
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    This is exciting!
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    I wonder if a release of neuro-toxins is a part of the exhibit.
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    GLaDOS will now be in MoMA. That thought is simultaneously exciting and terrifying. What if that’s just a part of her...
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    Yeah! Take that film critic that (like all adults over 60ish) doesn’t understand video games as an involving art medium!
  17. throwntogetherletters reblogged this from popculturebrain and added:
    If you’re in South Florida, there’s also an exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art entitled The Art of Video Games.
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    They’re going to have Canabalt? Sweet!
  21. bringtheruckuss reblogged this from popculturebrain and added:
    I have some stuff they would probably want. Sega prototypes and rare consoles.