Look Who’s Smiley Now: MoMA Acquires Original Emoji (Published 2016)The original set of 176 emoji, which has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.Credit...Shigetaka Kurita, gift of NTT DoCoMo Your phone has just become home to a tiny little collection of modern art. On Wednesday, the Museum of Modern Art announced that it had acquired the original set of 176 emoji for its permanent collection. These glyphs, designed for pagers made by the Japanese mobile prov
