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Hello fellow CRUMBs, I don't know if they commissioned it, but if the announcement below is true, then we may have a fresh example of the most bizarre and intriguing case of collecting the ephemeral that I've heard of. Why collect specific works of art or design? It's so messy. Just collect memes! Richard Rinehart --------------- Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive bampfa.berkeley.edu --------------- University of California, Berkeley --------------- 2625 Durant Ave. Berkeley, CA, 94720-2250 ph.510.642.5240 fx.510.642.5269 Begin forwarded message: > > > > > Sent to you by Sunny via Google Reader: > > > MoMA acquires the @ symbol > via kottke.org by Jason Kottke on 3/22/10 > The Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA has made a, er, > symbolic acquisition of the @ symbol. > > The acquisition of @ takes one more step. It relies on the > assumption that physical possession of an object as a requirement > for an acquisition is no longer necessary, and therefore it sets > curators free to tag the world and acknowledge things that "cannot > be had" -- because they are too big (buildings, Boeing 747's, > satellites), or because they are in the air and belong to everybody > and to no one, like the @ -- as art objects befitting MoMA's > collection. The same criteria of quality, relevance, and overall > excellence shared by all objects in MoMA's collection also apply to > these entities. > > Tags: design MoMA museums typography > > > > Things you can do from here: > Subscribe to kottke.org using Google Reader > Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your > favorite sites > >