Emojis mean everything and they mean nothing at the same time. They’re completely personal and completely universal. They’re really quite stupid. And they’re the best thing that ever happened to our ...

This year, one of Napa Lighted Art Festival artists asked local Napa artists of all ages to design artwork for the emojis to ...

For as long as they've been available on our phones, emoji have mostly been a way for us to communicate with one another. When we lack the words to properly express our thoughts or feelings, a smiling ...

Emoji Mosaic takes the concept of “modern art” to an entirely new level. The site, masterminded by New York Times Web developer Eric Andrew Lewis, allows users to upload their favorite photos and have ...

The great emoji craze is understandable–in a complicated world, it can be hard to express what you really mean without tiny cartoons of guns, beer, aliens, flying stacks of money, Santa Claus, poop, ...

To the delight of art history geeks the world over, Los Angeles-based gallery Cantor Fine Art took it upon themselves to give us the emoji renditions of famous artists and popular works we’ve all been ...

Art From Botticelli to Basquiat, Art History Goes Emoji Some might find the translation of Vincent van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear” into a smiling cartoon head spurting blood a little ...

For the truly tech/text-savvy, having entire text message conversations using only emoji characters is an art form all its own. Now a group of art-smart folks on Twitter have taken that concept to the ...

We’ve already established that the selfie is a legitimate art form – validated by having its own show and gallery. Now it’s time to add the emoji. The Emoji Show explains the idea behind the show: In ...

Teens add them to every single conversation. Katy Perry translated a whole song into emoji. Some people can make them into works of art. Or, at least that's the assumption of Forced Meme Productions, ...

In today’s visually oriented culture, which increasingly communicates through images rather than text, emoji comprise a kind of “visual vernacular,” a language that conveys humor, ambiguity and ...