If you heard peals of laughter ringing out through the quiet, reverent halls of an art museum, what would your reaction be? Would you “tut-tut” in their general direction, maybe shoot them a glare or ...
Though Major League Baseball has scrubbed the images of all of its players from its websites amid an ongoing labor dispute between owners and players, one Staten Island man is doing his part to put ...
Daniel Arthur takes something we see all over the internet—memes—and turns them into real, traditional paintings. He picks up popular images and moments from internet culture, things that might have ...
Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer’s satirical illustrations, Reader’s Digest’s AI jokes, and the latest syndicated comic strips are offering sharp, humorous takes on modern life. These works explore ...
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “The Grand Odalisque” (1814) this was in the artist’s day considered a bold and scandalous image. But on closer examination it was demonstrated that the figure is ...
Cartoonist and writer Liza Donnelly began drawing some 60 years ago, when she was around 7, after her mother gave her a book by James Thurber. She started tracing his art, and it made her mom smile.
David Cessac is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Paris. His drawings, characterized by fierce humor and expressiveness, have attracted various magazines, communication agencies and cultural ...
In a MoMA retrospective filled with humorous angst, the German sculptor offers a prime 2025 resolution: Don’t run from failure. “Vater Staat (Father State),” 2010. Thomas Schütte’s monumental bronze ...
This dad turns kids’ terrible drawings into hilarious, surreal photos that imagine what those creatures and objects would “really’ look like. The best adults are experts at feigning excitement over a ...
Artist Liz Maugans taps into the comic side in “Pool Drawings,” a new collection of 52 spreads over 103 pages in which she catalogs, sometimes sarcastically, modern adult life in America. This release ...
Scott Simon speaks to writer and director Owen Kline about his new movie, "Funny Pages," in which a young cartoonist explores the relationship between creativity and craft. "Funny Pages," a new film ...