Medieval imagery wasn’t meant to be funny when it was made hundreds of years ago, but all over Instagram it has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious — depending on your sense ...

In a year that opened with a gold cube landing in Central Park and concluded with A.I. rising to test the limits of artist copyright, the internet had much to chew over when it came to the art world ...

The world of classic art can look overwhelming from the outside, with a plethora of styles, conventions, must-remember pieces, and artists. And that’s only if one stays firmly rooted in the Western ...

Art movements have often evolved alongside the forces that shape our daily lives in each era. In the digital age, the most influential of these forces is the internet. Life today moves similarly to ...

The meme has been around so long that it has infiltrated other memes. Installation view of "Rene Magritte - The Treachery of Images" at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2017. Photo: ...

Not everyone appreciates a good, old art masterpiece. Some might even go as far as calling it boring. It could be because they struggle to interpret the message behind the painting, or maybe they miss ...

In a recent essay for the AFC art blog, Will Brand lambasted the recent dot work of Damien Hirst with a memorable line: These spots reflect nothing about how we live, see, or think, they’re just some ...

Memes don’t usually have the longest shelf life. Temporary Internet superstars like Antoine Dodson and once-popular photos like Scumbag Steve fade into obscurity and get replaced by newer, trendier ...

Classical art might be centuries old, but the emotions in those paintings still feel weirdly familiar today. That’s exactly what makes the Instagram page “Classical Art Memes” so entertaining. By ...