Classical art is known for its beauty and sophistication, but if you look a little closer (and add a few captions), you’ll see it has a hilarious side, too. These funny memes take timeless works of ...

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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 ...

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Knock Knock: Who’s There? That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore examines the delicate relationship between art and humor, and—it must be said straightaway—you won’t find it a laugh a minute. But that’s not ...

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing W. W. Norton & Company Given our current emergency, Laing’s thesis can make the reader wistful. She writes that one of her major, longstanding ...

Art Linkletter, who endeared himself to millions of TV viewers in the 1950s and '60s as the genial host of the TV shows "People Are Funny" and "Art Linkletter's House Party," died Wednesday. By Duane ...

Art Linkletter, the Canadian-born foundling and San Diego State University graduate who hosted two of radio and early television’s most popular programs, “House Party” and “People Are Funny,” died ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Art Linkletter, who as the gently mischievous host of TV's "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and '60s delighted viewers with his ability to get kids — and grownups — ...