Love In The Air
March, 2012
Is Super Mario Bros, the new American Gothic? The Smithsonian thinks so. This month the museum debuts its new exhibit, The Art of Video Games, which elevates the 40-year-oldmedium from adolescent time waster to legitimate artistic pursuit. (A companion book will also be released.) The games on display (see two of them below) were selected by developers, designers and journalists. But the exhibit is also interactive, allowing visitors to determine whether the visuals from such games as Halo 2 (...
