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MoMA's Paola Antonelli on thinking of games as design objects
MoMA curator Paola Antonelli discusses the museum's groundbreaking inclusion of video games in their permanent collection, marking a shift in how institutions view digital design.
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Visions of hell: Dark Souls’s cultural heritage
It’s the trees; the twisted, whorled trees, their skeletal branches raking the belly of the looming sky. Those are Caspar David Friedrich trees, unmistakably corkscrewed and bent. They rise out of collapsing stonework just like Friedrich’s do, and are touched by the same fading light, decapitated by
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Degraded portraits of royals reflect their obsessive inbreeding
It is commonly known that the in-marrying of families was an aristocratic trait used to ensure the purity of a monarchy or empire’s bloodline. Unlike the infamous incestuous relationship between Cersei and Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones, these relationships held significant political power, and
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The history of photography could predict the future of videogames
Photography learned what made it unique. Games are too.