Original Emojis to Be Exhibited at New York Museum

Move over, Monet. Go away, van Gogh. It's time for smiley faces, cats and broken hearts at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The acclaimed art institution announced Wednesday that it had acquired the original set of 176 emojis. They were a gift to the museum from the phone company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. They are not the adorable, yellow emoticons we know and love (and text) today, but 12-by-12-pixel images created by Japanese mobile carrier NTT DOCOMO. When they...

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