I recently received a copy of Dr. Keri Cronin's new book called Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914. I honestly know just about nothing about this topic, so I immediately ...

Chen Wenling, “Riding to Happiness (with 56 little pigs)” (2006) fiberglass, Denver Art Museum (all image by the author for Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) As far back as ancient Sumer and ...

At this year's conference of the College Art Association (CAA), I organized a session titled "The Art of Animal Activism" with Keri Cronin, an associate professor of art history at Brock University in ...

Last week, the 65th of World War II, the U. S. art world seemed to find a new interest in life. Unable to face man’s inhumanity to man, artists and gallerygoers agreed that war was the time to ...

In the wake of the uproar around a Guggenhein show, we asked institutions how they had dealt with sensitivities. A dog with its leg painted pink walks around, and is part of, the exhibition by French ...

The art world is an attractive habitat for snakes. Jackals and hyenas too. Peacocks? Definitely. Chameleons? Sure, if you know how to spot them. Sharks? Whales and minnows? Hares and tortoises?

The world’s oldest known figurative artwork has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia – an endearing image of a warty pig. Archaeologists working on the site on the island of Sulawesi said the cave ...

In spite of the thousands of words ... recorded in our ponderous dictionaries, there are some that seem still to be needed, among them one to define the modern taxidermist ... whose work can only be ...

Viewing living anatomy is an essential component of many art educations, but rare are the classes where this extends beyond humans. At the New York Academy of Art in Tribeca, there is a biodiversity ...

This is part of a series from Ilene Dube of The Artful Blogger. A cat is a wild animal, a predator prowling for meat. It is simultaneously a cuddly pet, the subject of its own genre of cute videos.