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  • If the last time you played Pac-Man was at the local arcade when you were a kid, you may be surprised to find the game on your next visit to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. But here is the Pac-Man experience in what you might call a “pure” form.

    “I would like for a moment for people to forget arcades, to forget beers, to forget the kind of seedy and sticky carpet,” said Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the museum’s department of architecture and design. “I know that’s fun but I would like them to just focus on the interaction. So it’s the screen, the game, the controller, and that’s it.”

    It is interaction design, not art, for which MoMA has installed Pac-Man and 13 other video games in a new exhibit.

    “I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens,” Antonelli said in an interview for “Newsmakers” on ABC News/Yahoo! News.

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  • “The Scream,” with all its pop culture manifestations – from “Home Alone” to “The Simpsons” to posters, T-shirts and bookbags – may be the most familiar of modern art masterpieces, but Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting might still be among the least understood.

    The iconic image of the elongated face, its gaping mouth opened in a scream that seems both anguish and horror was so important to Munch, that the very first reproduction came from the artist himself two years after he painted the original. When a patron asked for the original, the Norwegian painter refused to hand it over and instead created another, with a frame etched with an excerpt from his unpublished notes. This is the version now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

    “What he says is that he’s walking along and he feels the bloody scream through Nature,” said Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, in a Newsmakers interview for ABC News/Yahoo! News. “We all think that the figure is

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