How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in. More than a millennium ago, the Japanese empress Fujiwara no Teishi ...

Besides commercial products such as Tamagotchi toys or Sylvanian Family figures, Etsy store owners and scientists have collaborated with contemporary artists who portray “cute aesthetics” and its ...

As social media grows to love miniature art and cooking, a new trend of decorating your space with tiny paintings is sweeping the internet. Instead of overcrowding the walls with large and elaborate ...

There are lots of things that have near universal appeal. Manatees, babies, fuzzy animals, etc. As far back as sixth grade, I can remember discussing with my friends what made things cute. Our ...

ABSTRACT This essay brokers an unlikely connection between Sianne Ngai’s “weak” aesthetic category of the cute and Carl Schmitt’s aesthetics of political theology through a reading of the soft, sticky ...

This study reframes transatlantic Aesthetic painting as a visual language of interconnection and systematic organization, with an emphasis on its development and dissemination through patronage ...