Tag: Cats
Next Thursday the Brooklyn Museum will be opening a brand new exhibition…and luckily it’s all about cats. The upcoming exhibition entitled ‘Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt’ focuses on the representation of cats in ancient Egypt and aims to highlight the ongoing historical and cultural significance of our relationship with them. Ever since cats were first domesticated in […]
Stray cats on campus of the Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill are a charming aspect of campus life, almost as old as the institution itself. Recently, there have been rumors of mass cat “eviction.” That rumor was enough for over 1,300 Pratt students to sign Yanni Trittas’ petition opposing the removal the cats, just in the past 48 hours. Jolene Travis, a spokesmen for the school says: […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Faith Holland talks about a movie scene inspiring her video performances Light Petting and Heavy Petting in which she touches the internet. The idea for Heavy Petting was conceived about a year ago when my husband and I watched Human Centipede […]
You may remember New York artist David Livingston from the time he hilariously dragged a giant, pink, soft, stuffed penis into the New Museum and the other time he hilariously dragged a giant, striped, soft, stuffed penis all over the Supreme Court steps. And now, here’s a brand spankin’ new thing he just uploaded to Vimeo: […]
Perhaps this little kitty just read in PopSci that he can in fact get high by smoking weed. Never mind that magazine’s assertion that cannabis can cause “considerable anxiety” in animals, this cat just wants get high It’s only natural, that he’d want to do a few practice runs on the ol’ vacuum cleaner before stepping […]
The nicer your phone is, the more likely you are to drop and damage it. It’s pretty much a fact by this point. If you’re an iPhone fan, though, you might have less problems with cracked screens in your future. Apple has filed a patent for a “Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device” that, should […]
If you don’t like this video you can go fuck yourself. WHAT?!!! Look it’s a cat video by experimental artist Chris Marker. Art. Yeah? OK THEN. […]
Earlier this week, we presented evidence that cats have always fucked up our shit with a 15th-century document marked with pawprints. Another instance has been discovered; on a really old brick, there are little paws indented into the side. After some examination by a master’s student at Sonoma State, the hypothesis seems to be that […]
This cat disapproves of your corny street art in Greenpoint. (Photo: d Wang/Flickr) […]
In this 15th-century tome of government letters from the Republic of Ragusa, we finally have concrete proof that attention-hungry cats have enjoyed fucking up our shit while we’re trying to work for centuries, as evidenced by the inky pawprints plopped on the pages. This relic from the past also reminds us of @shitmycatstype, a Twitter […]