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Sometimes called “Baby Pope,” Botero’s Pope Leo X (after Raphael) became an instant meme when it was uploaded to a Reddit forum in 2014. Frequently accompanied by the phrase “Y tho” (an ...
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 ...
The birth of Dancing Baby. The word meme wasn’t ubiquitous when Sheridan came across Dancing Baby, then a file called babycha2.avi, in 1997. He was a “shy, nerdy” teenager living outside of ...
Chris Torres, creator of the rainbow feline meme “Nyan Cat,” has made an 8-bit “Nyan Baby,” while artist Yuuki Morita, who makes unsettling digital creatures, opted for a multi-headed ...
The idea of an art meme feels counterintuitive: art is supposed to reflect deep issues about society and self, ... we need simply look back to this 1950s Lovers Lane collection of baby photos.
A tweet yesterday (August 20) lined up that if the Super Bowl was in February, the star must be heavily pregnant by now or already have the baby. They tweeted: "DAMNNNN it seems like Rihanna been ...
Memes may be image-based, involving a kind of visual pun. ... “I’m perhaps over-dignifying baby pictures when I talk about them as art, but I think the abstraction applies. ...
The Dancing Baby is not the first internet meme to be thrown up on the blockchain: the creator of Nyan Cat remastered the colorful feline for minting early last year.In a world where nostalgia is ...
The power of a meme shouldn’t be underestimated just because it seems like nonsense — nonsense isn’t worthless. It allows us to laugh together. And there’s no nonsense more meaningful than ...
One day, Vance is a doe-eyed baby sucking a lollipop. The next, he’s reshaped into the GigaChad meme, the embodiment of an alpha male with a jawline so sharp it could cut steel.