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!

Memes don’t usually have the longest shelf life. Temporary Internet superstars like Antoine Dodson and once-popular photos like Scumbag Steve fade into obscurity and get replaced by newer, trendier ...

Turns out, the Renaissance was messy, and we have the memes to prove it. Classical art is full of side-eyes, meltdowns, and wildly over-the-top emotions that feel… weirdly relatable. Pages like ...

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 ...

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

Earlier this year, a UK university released a study that found that memes about depression actually helped depressed people cope with their symptoms. Apparently, sharing memes allows people to express ...

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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 — ...

Serena G. Pellegrino ’23 is a resident of Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. I believe in the importance of nonsense. More specifically, that a little bit of nonsense in life is ...