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!

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The subreddit /r/trippinthroughtime is for memes about historical figures, where someone in art or an old photo looks confused or silly. Each picture has a caption, usually treating the weird art as ...

All over Instagram, medieval imagery has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious, depending on your sense of humor. Meme from @classicalartshits (screenshot Alicia ...

A bad drawing of the anime character "Frieren" has leaked out of Reddit and taken over social media, inspiring a massive art ...

Bernie Sanders may not have been up on the dais, but he was the undeniable viral star of the 2021 inauguration. The Vermont senator is beloved for his progressive policies and sartorial commitment to ...

For long, memes have been dismissed as fleeting jokes or humorous fragments of digital life. Yet they have also mirrored our collective psyche, politics, and emotions with uncanny precision. Now, ...

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 ...

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: ...

Art history memes impart a feeling of historical continuity, the sense that people who came before us experienced the same hardships we face now. Thanks to accounts like Facebook’s Classical Art Memes ...

Meme by @drugowl featuring Hugo Simberg’s The Wounded Angel (1903). Photo: drugowl@Instagram For those who aren’t already art-literate but would like to be, entering that world can be intimidating — ...