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 ...

In honor of the first emoji art and design show, here is a compilation of the best emoji masterpieces on the web. Emojis mean everything and they mean nothing at the same time. They’re completely ...

Emoticons are nifty things. They've become an extension of our digital selves, allowing us to communicate a range of emotions simply and effectively in our texts and emails. And given their ubiquity, ...

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, ...

The emoji library is not entirely lacking in art references, and there are some really impressive ones: the Moai emoji 🗿, for instance, which alludes to the Rapa Nui’s ancient carved stone head ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since Apple popularized the Japanese emoticons on known as emoji with the release of i0S5, digital communication once confined to letters, numbers and punctuation has become a cartoonish ...

Emojis have officially entered the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, but those 176 characters probably look a little different than the ones US audiences are used to using to express ...

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 ...