Video Games: Winners announced May 5 | Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Art of Video Games | Smithsonian American Art Museum:

Voting ended on April 17, 2011. The winning games will be announced publicly on May 5, 2011." The exhibition will be on display at the museum from March 16, 2012 through September 30, 2012.

The Art of Video Games exhibition, will explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with ... the most influential artists and designers. This website offered participants a chance to vote for 80 games from a pool of 240 proposed choices in various categories, divided by era, game type and platform.

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Coca-Cola: largest collection worth $12M to be sold for 2 years (via Auction Central News)

Museum's Coca-Cola auctions promise to be ‘delicious & refreshing’:

"The biggest and arguably the best privately held collection of Coca-Cola memorabilia will be sold over a two-year period, much of it at public auctions starting as soon as mid-September.
Owners of the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia in Elizabethtown have decided to disperse the collection of more than 80,000 items, which is estimated to be worth as much as $10 million."

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King Kong & #Godzilla (1985) So happy together @SwannGalleries Auction

Swann Auction Galleries : Full Details for Lot 208:

"STEFF GEISSBUHLER (1942- ) PEACE. 1985.
35 3/4x24 inches, 91x61 cm. Crafton Graphic Co., Inc.
Condition B+: tears and creases at edges; abrasions in image. Paper.
A student of Armin Hofmann in Switzerland, Geissbuhler settled in America where he began an exceptional and distinguished career in graphic design. In addition to his major commissions from the Smithsonian, IBM, Mobil, Union Pacific and others, he was also able to incorporate a sense of humor into his smaller projects. This image was designed to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and encourages the reconciliation of the world's two super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union."

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The Belm Collection of Unusual Food:

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