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Tamara Kostianovsky Envisions a Whimsical Slaughterhouse

by Louis Bury October 20, 2021October 26, 2021

The animal carcass sculptures are gruesome yet their materials — the artist’s own discarded clothing — lend them some gentleness.

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The Art of Looking at, and With, Animals

by Eileen G'Sell April 17, 2021April 19, 2021

Gunda and Stray reveal how difficult it is not to romanticize the lives of other animals.

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The Latest Visitors to the Nelson Atkins Museum? A Trio of Penguins

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 19, 2020May 21, 2020

Three Humboldt penguins got a private tour of the museum, and it turns out they like Caravaggio.

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The Strange Reign of Raccoons Online

by Justine Smith March 6, 2020March 5, 2020

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.

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Interpreting the Beasts of the Middle Ages

by Sarah E. Bond July 8, 2019August 4, 2021

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. 

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Seeing Ourselves in Animals Throughout Art History

by Sarah E. Bond October 2, 2018August 4, 2021

The exhibition Stampede prods the viewer to consider how artists use animals to represent human traits and critique the world we humans live within.

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How the Animal Menagerie of Versailles Changed 17th-Century Art

by Allison Meier December 26, 2017December 26, 2017

1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins delves into the radical influence of Louis XIV’s menagerie at Versailles on the art of animals.

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A VR Documentary on Animal Surveillance Tracks a Grizzly’s Life

by Allison Meier July 10, 2017August 3, 2021

Bear 71 VR is an interactive documentary that uses trail camera footage and animal tracking to follow the life of one grizzly in Banff National Park.

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Mourning Extinction with a Museum’s Animal Artifacts

by Allison Meier March 17, 2017March 17, 2017

In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction.

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The Biodiversity of the World Captured in Five Centuries of Animal Art

by Allison Meier March 1, 2017

Charlotte Sleigh’s book The Paper Zoo explores 500 years of scientific animal illustration as seen in the collections of the British Library.

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Terrible Taxidermy from When Exotic Animals Were Unknown in the West

by Allison Meier August 25, 2016January 19, 2017

Exotic animal visitors to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were more frequently dead than alive.

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An Artist and Amateur Scientist Who Painted Animal Camouflage and Angels

by Allison Meier July 25, 2016July 26, 2016

Before coming across an unusually calligraphic painting of a mountain, Williams College Museum of Art Curator Kevin Murphy considered the turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Handerson Thayer “a one slide guy,” a man known for portraits of placid angels, who in an art history class might get one mention and then be forgotten.

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