Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008” and ...

On 5 September, the online platform and digital library Giphy joined forces with the Museum of Modern GIFs (MoMG), a digital archive featuring nearly 100,000 GIFs, the popular short-form animated ...

With the original dancing baby now 17 years old, have animated gifs come of age? BBC Culture reveals the first pieces from a new Saatchi Gallery competition. They’ve moved from objects of mindless ...

While animated GIFs have trampled over still images, Flash animations, and even in some cases video clips as a way to inject multimedia pizazz into text-based content, animated illustrations remain a ...

What does the history of GIF art look like? This is a tricky question to answer because while there has been no shortage of animated GIF exhibitions, there is a dearth of documentation. Bond Street, a ...