A new show of British humorous art will have its share of laughs. But, says Tom Lubbock, there are risible omissions. The most serious is that, apart from Hogarth, painting is perceived as a ...

This exhibition of ‘cute and funny’ ukiyo-e prints has been curated to evoke in us modern-day viewers the same feelings the Edo-ites folks would have felt when viewing Ukiyo-e art at the time ...

Is modern art funny? My answer is yes – simply because I can think of some famous 20th-century works that seem to be genuinely and wholeheartedly funny. When we look for comedy in modern art, we ...

Classical art was probably meant to be admired in museums or studied in textbooks, but leave it to the internet to turn it into funny memes.These paintings may be centuries old, but somehow they ...

Yes, that preposition is correct — art “by,” not “about,” animals. This unlikely yet widespread practice generates a modest ongoing source of income in U.S. zoos, dependent on paintings ...

Nearly 91 years after 'American Gothic” wowed the world, Grant Wood's iconic 1930 painting continues to tickle viewers' fancy. Some of those viewers have left their mark on mass-produced copies ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Bob Long is a butcher by trade and an artist in his spare time. His medium of choice is, naturally, animal blood on canvas. He gets cringes from some when he talks about making ...

A few animals are prodigious producers of ‘art’, says Jason G Goldman. Why do they do it? Do they enjoy the creative process? And is their work any good? At first glance, the Vogelkop Gardener ...

A New York Zoo offered a sneak preview of some of the artwork that will be available at its upcoming gala auction: creations by animals including penguins, giraffes, sloths, capybaras and others.