MoMA Adds @ Symbol to Its Permanent Collection

From Juli Weiner at Vanity Fair…

New York’s Museum of Modern Art announced today that it has acquired the @ symbol. This now means Twitter is technically art. MoMA’s chief design curator, Paola Antonelli credits computer engineer/ersatz modern artist Ray Tomlinson with “imbuing [the symbol] with new meaning and elevating it to defining symbol of the computer age.” More…