Opinion Pepper Spray Cop Meme Walks Through Art History The pepper-spray cop from UC Davis, or Lt. John Pike, has become a meme, but not just any meme but one that is walking through art works of ...

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!

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 ...

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: ...

Classical art was meant to be serious, but the internet had other plans. Centuries-old paintings now double as perfect reaction memes, proving that human struggles—and awkward moments—have always been ...

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 ...

A beautiful thing happened this week in our city: a supernova of memes immortalizing the archetype of the "Northeast Philly dude," the one true dawg who lives everywhere in our midst. It all began ...

Visitors can walk down a "time tunnel" to see the history of memes via rows of TV screens. The displays include some viral Hong Kong-style jokes and also honors worldwide classics like the doge, ...