Eve Online exhibit to become a permanent fixture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

We can still argue about whether video games are an art form, but the folks at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) have already decided they are. The latest endorsement of video games as art comes as MoMA has decided to make its Eve Online exhibit into a permanent fixture at the museum’s Applied Design installation.

CCP Games, the Iceland-based creator of the game, said that the 4K UltraHD video of the installation showcases a “day in the universe” of Eve Online, a sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game that still has a remarkably strong community of players even though it was published 12 years ago. The installation is a very cool portrait of an online economy that has developed in Eve Online over the years, thanks to the dedication of its players and the open market for goods and services in the game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.