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For contemporary artists who love to insert a little bit of humor in their work, the situation above begs the question: Can art be funny? Yes, of course — but it doesn’t have to be ...

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 ...

His new book, “If It’s Not Funny It’s Art” (Grand Central Publishing, $15.99 paper), is a collection of illustrations that feature Martin’s signature, off-kilter one-liners, black-and ...

Granted, this art deserves a proper home, but its fame is more and more acknowledged. We know that cartoons are funny. It's great to see them, but they can look after themselves. Meanwhile there ...

Laing's new nonfiction collection, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, is a group of essays loosely constellated around the same question: what use is art — and the people who think and talk ...

That's certainly how we're often taught about modern art. Its comic aspect is firmly repressed. What look like funny faces aren't really funny. They are pure formal experiments, or they're an act ...

The late and legendary Art Buchwald (1925-2007), the subject of Michael Hill’s admiring biography, “Funny Business,” was cut from a different cloth. Short and a bit of a pudge, he primarily ...

Funny Weather poses a powerful and important question, one that’s been nagging away at many of us this past month or so. With bookshops closed, theatres dark and museums shuttered, what is art ...

The band was willfully ironic and averse to canonization. An aggressively heady new movie it inspired, “Pavements,” thumbs its nose at the epic rock bio-pic. “Yesterday bleeds in the ...