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

The painting’s artist and sitter remain a mystery, but they have fueled a popular 2020 meme. Young Woman on her Deathbed (ca. 1621), painting by an unknown artist, oil on canvas. Photo by ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Memes, those viral bastions of internet culture, are more than just clicks, likes and jokes — they can function as commentary on the times and in some cases, as veritable cultural touchstones. In fact ...

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 ...