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Getting Tangible Dollars for an Intangible Creation
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Published by The New York Times on 2002-02-18
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By MATTHEW MIRAPAUL
In a strong endorsement of a young genre, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is acquiring two works of Internet-based art for its permanent collection and today is hanging them, so to speak, on a special section of the foundation's Web site at guggenheim.org/internetart. The works are "net.flag" by Mark Napier and "Unfolding Object" by John F. Simon Jr.
Jon Ippolito, the Guggenheim Museum's associate curator of media arts, said, "The objective is both to demonstrate our conviction that these forms of cultural expression deserve to be safeguarded for the future and also to demonstrate a method for doing it."
Now that the artists' development of the works is finished — a relative term for projects that will continue to change as online visitors alter them — the Guggenheim can officially acquire them, a process that is expected to be finalized at the foundation's spring board meeting.....
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