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 ...

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 ...

inspiration comes from whatever -- and whoever -- is in the cultural zeitgeist, including celebs like Dolly Parton, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, and Snoop Dogg. Weston ...

Five more skin tone shades are going to be added to your emoji multiverse, and it’s about time! Seeing as the current emoji menu offers every possible option of transportation, phase of the moon, and ...

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, ...

Aligning with the date eternally present on the emoji calendar, July 17 marks World Emoji Day. While Apple already announced a new slew of emoji for 2020, from boba to nesting dolls, Hyperallergic’s ...

Yung Jake takes emoji art to the next level. He's crafted likenesses of DJs Steve Aoki, Diplo and more. By Kat Bein Sometimes, deciphering emojis is an art unto itself, but Los Angeles visual artist ...

Back in 1999, when the mobile internet first flickered to life on Japan’s i-mode, email was confined to a snug 250 characters. Email! So when designer Shigetaka Kurita centered pixels on his potter’s ...

The art world has been buzzing this week about a new set of emoji that have been inspired by the many faces of the photographer Cindy Sherman - just one of many recent examples of art taking the ...