Of the enormous permanent collections owned by major museums, only a very, very small portion of artworks get to see the light of day at any given time. Many institutions have sought to change that ...

It would take the average person approximately three days to view every work on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art—and that’s not counting the thousands of pieces that are stored in the ...

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 ...

How’s your emoji game? Can you message an entire sentence with clever little pictures instead of words? Can you combine pictures and words in such a way that the receiver is both impressed and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly two decades ago, Shigetaka Kurita was given the task of designing simple pictographs that could replace Japanese words for the growing number of cellphone users communicating with text messages ...

Having a full conversation using images in lieu of words has become more and more possible, thanks to the magic of emoji, those tiny little faces and graphics that have shot to popularity since being ...

Aussie kids are abandoning emojis in a welcome return to the art of wordplay. Here’s what’s driving the push. But teens are ditching emojis for new-age abbreviations, in a welcome return to the art of ...