If you heard peals of laughter ringing out through the quiet, reverent halls of an art museum, what would your reaction be? Would you “tut-tut” in their general direction, maybe shoot them a glare or ...

There’s something weirdly comforting about seeing 17th-century oil paintings capture the same relationship drama we go through now. Like, sure, they were wearing powdered wigs and dying of the plague, ...

BRECKENRIDGE ” It’s not cartooning, and it’s not traditional fine art — it’s Art That Makes You Laugh. Twenty-year humor artist Jeff Leedy said he named his business for what he creates. Golfers, ...

» “Humor Me: The Art of Laughter” is on display through July 3 at the William King Museum of Art, 415 Academy Drive, Abingdon, Virginia. Admission to the museum is always free. Call 276-628-5005.

Art is entering a new realm. In the past, it’s been dramatic, political, confusing, revolutionary and poignant. But now, art is funny … on purpose. The new exhibit “Laugh: the art of humor” aims to ...

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 ...

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 ...