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 ...

Though 2024 wasn’t a banner year in many respects, the internet can at least congratulate itself on yet another annual bumper crop of memes. And let’s not forget the role of art in making it happen!

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A good meme is a piece of art in and of itself. But for Alim Smith, that’s not enough. In honor of Black History Month, the Delaware-based, interdisciplinary artist reimagined some of history’s most ...