Emoji join Dali and van Gogh in New York's MoMA

You might think of emoji as a lowbrow form of communication, but according to MoMA, it's art. The museum added the original 176 emoji, developed by Shigetaka Kurita for Japanese pagers in 1999, to its collection. "With the advent of email in the 1970s ... the conveyance of tone and emotion became both harder and more urgently important," MoMA design specialist Paul Galloway wrote. "When combined with text, these simple images allow for more nuanced intonation."

Via: NYT

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