Cats, dogs, and a parrot with a personality are among the works on view in Alice Neel: Feels Like Home at the Orange County Museum of Art.
Animals
An Exhibition of Cat Art Worthy of a Meowseum
A new show at the Queens gallery Mrs. proves that dogs may be man’s best friends, but cats are humans’ idols.
Otters Are Art History’s Unsung Muses
From ancient times to the present day, join us as we pay tribute to these otter-ly charismatic creatures in various visual media.
Bird Photographer of the Year Winners Capture Feathered Wonders
This year’s awardees portray the majestic beauty of our winged friends and highlight the urgency of conservation efforts.
Brazilian Nights From an Animal’s Point of View
Playing at several film festivals this late summer, Ana Vaz’s It Is Night in America asks the viewer to take on unusual perspectives.
Another Dinosaur Skeleton Hits the Auction Block
Sotheby’s is offering the first Gorgosaurus to ever go under the hammer, even as some critics find sales of dinosaur fossils appalling.
Baby Mammoth, Buried for 30,000 Years, Unearthed Largely Intact in Canada
Nun cho ga, meaning “big baby animal” in the Hän language, is “the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America.
Tamara Kostianovsky Envisions a Whimsical Slaughterhouse
The animal carcass sculptures are gruesome yet their materials — the artist’s own discarded clothing — lend them some gentleness.
The Art of Looking at, and With, Animals
Gunda and Stray reveal how difficult it is not to romanticize the lives of other animals.
The Latest Visitors to the Nelson Atkins Museum? A Trio of Penguins
Three Humboldt penguins got a private tour of the museum, and it turns out they like Caravaggio.
The Strange Reign of Raccoons Online
The raccoon is one of the most popular animals on social media. But the human obsession with the scavengers predates the internet by thousands of years.
Interpreting the Beasts of the Middle Ages
Animals were an important part of the everyday lives of ancient and medieval people, whether they were real or imagined, and their literary use in the Middle Ages formed a moral language.