It's our 20th episode, so we decided to talk about two things that are near and dear to us: cats and art. Listen as we discuss four works of art that feature cats as well recent exhibitions of cat imagery, and ultimately try to answer the question: what can cats tell us about art?
Check out the Slideshow below for the images we mention in the episode. At the bottom of the page, you'll find Links to other sites for more information and News Updates.
LINKS
"How Cats Took Over the Internet," Museum of the Moving Image, NYC (exhibition site) Internet Cat Video Festival 2015, the Walker Art Center (festival site) Cat is Art Spelled Wrong (book on cats and art) Carloee Schneemann, "Breath of Life," Art in America (on her cats and her art) FatCatArt (images of Fat Cat inserted into works from art history) Books on Cats in Art Frederic Vitoux and Elisabeth Foucart-Walter, Cats in the Louvre John P. O'Neill, Metropolitan Cats Caroline Bugler, The Cat: 3500 Years of the Cat in Art Stefano Zuffi, The Cat in Art Alain Vircondelet, Balthus and Cats NEWS July 30, 2005: Internet's Best Friend (Let Me Count the Ways), NYTimes Aug. 25, 2007: With 'LOLcats' Internet Fat, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke, Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2009: The internet is made of kittens, Salon Sept. 6, 2013: Jillian Steinhauer, Why Watching Cat Videos with 10,000 People Matters, Hyperallergic Aug. 24, 2015: Stephen Burt, Prolegomena to Any Future Poetics of the Cat Video, Hyperallergic Sept. 30: Sasha Archibald, Feline Darlings and the Anti-Cute, Walker Magazine |
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