Selfies

Surprised museum researchers find many visitors snap photographs of themselves with the masterpieces.

• By Tom Jacobs

When it comes to images that portray young women in clichéd poses, advertisements have nothing on selfies.

• By Tom Jacobs

In fact, they might be something way more interesting.

• By Jeremy Gordon

Selfies are no more art than a can of paint falling on a blank piece of paper is a Jackson Pollock.

• By Kyle Chayka

Just as the affordability of mirrors drove the rise of self-portraits in Renaissance Art, reversible cameras have made every smartphone owner into a Cindy Sherman or Nan Goldin. On how we're no longer self-conscious, but self-constructive.

• By Casey N. Cep