Register reporter Richard Chang has finally published his piece on the World of Warcraft exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum. He attended the opening and nabbed some better-looking stills from the museum to share with readers (see slide show).
The long-time arts writer did a lot of research into his lengthy piece considering he initially asked us at The Blizzard Blog, “So, is World of Warcraft big?”
But cut him some slack. He chats with Blizzard, the museum director and others and comes out with insights like this:
“Think about it, culturally: 11.5 million people spending 10 hours a week on that game – what does that mean? That’s a lot of time,” said Bolton Colburn, director of the Laguna Art Museum. “It certainly begs the question: How does computer gaming and the change in our culture at that level begin to affect us? When’s it going to affect us all?”
Chang’s story is more of the story behind the WoW exhibit, which is sponsored by Blizzard, by the way. I would have preferred his critical eye to offer insights into what he thought of the pieces, being such an outsider. After all, Chang is more into coffee table fare like Joan Miró, Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol.
In other Blizzard updates, Chang also notes that Blizzard is still working on that WoW movie (see low in the story).
Check out his piece, “‘World of Warcraft’ quest leads to Laguna.”
More on the art of Blizzard:
The “World of Warcraft” BlizzCon pet’s been announced — it’s a murloc marine with a gauss rifle. Looks like the Terrans will take anyone into their military these days; on the other hand, players now have a first line of defense against collector’s edition zergling pets. 
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