How meme culture evolved into a serious digital art movement redefining creativity, ownership, and permanence online.

The men were honored with a statue made in their image at a festival in Birmingham in August. The statue's artist said he's faced online mockery from people saying it was a "waste" of money. A British ...

Memes have spread all over the internet like wildfire. Everyone from innovators to politicians, companies, government, and the general public, all use memes extensively. They are no longer just jokes ...

If you like art and are on Instagram, then you probably know the account @freeze_magazine—that’s freeze spelled with an E, like “help me, I’m freezing,” not with an I, like the popular art magazine ...

Classical art and elements of digital technology like memes are two worlds apart. But who says you can’t mix these two to create something funny to draw some quick laughs? The Classical Art Central ...

It was, by all accounts, an unremarkable painting by an unremarkable painter tucked away in the church of an unremarkable Spanish town—Santuario de Misericordia in Borja, Zaragoza, to be precise. The ...

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 ...

Turns out, the Renaissance was messy, and we have the memes to prove it. Classical art is full of side-eyes, meltdowns, and wildly over-the-top emotions that feel… weirdly relatable. Pages like ...

There’s something weirdly comforting about seeing 17th-century oil paintings capture the same relationship drama we go through now. Like, sure, they were wearing powdered wigs and dying of the plague, ...

A Seattle meme artist known as Sunday Nobody has sunk a three-metre bronze mash-up of Handsome Squidward and the ancient Greek Discobolus off the coast of Greece, built, shipped and submerged for ...

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 ...

If you’re an artist living in China, take some advice from the example of Dai Jianyong: don’t make potty jokes about the president. Meme-ing by the Buddha (via) According to AP, Jianyong posted ...