Comment by bigyabai
3 days ago
Anything can make the cut at MOMA. The gigantic disaster of OLPC is enshrined as "art" there too: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757
3 days ago
Anything can make the cut at MOMA. The gigantic disaster of OLPC is enshrined as "art" there too: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757
If you think that a Mac or an OLPC is not art, you have a very narrow definition of art.
Then the Franklin machine is also art.
It is.
It was an interesting design, well-suited to the target audience and presents quite well in person (a co-worker bought two, one donated, the other for his personal use when hiking).
By those qualifications we could very well nominate a Franklin machine for exhibit.
The OLPC had innovative features developed by the designers --- what innovative features which were not copied did the Franklin have?
To turn things back to where we started, can you find one article which criticizes MOMA for including an Apple Macintosh along with its Picasso?
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