MoMA Acquires the @ Symbol

Sure you can look at it right now, sitting there in front of you on your keyboard, but sometimes it takes a modern art museum to make you aware of its significance. So it is with the “@” symbol, which New York’s Museum of Modern Art has just acquired for its permanent collection. If your immediate reaction is, “How can you collect a symbol?!” then you have fallen right into Senior Curator Paola Antonelli‘s trap.