We like to think of ourselves as more civilized than the ones that came before. After all, they were riding horses and ...

Rodin’s statue of a serious man has become a popular template for not-so-serious memes. Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in front of the Congress. Courtesy Getty Images. Such ...

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 ...

Classical art memes are here to remind us that people in the Renaissance were just as dramatic as we are today. From sassy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...