The Roaches That Came In from the Cold
For Catherine Chalmers, a cockroach is a blank canvas. And today 18 squirming insects will emerge from her refrigerator to undergo a metamorphosis—into painted players in a tableau she will photograph....
View ArticleBirds Do It, Bees Do It: Taking Animals’ Art Skills Seriously
Move over, painting chimps. Today's art-making animals are cutting-edge creators who turn up everywhere from the National Zoo to MoMA Read More
View ArticleThe Roaches That Came In from the Cold
“A frog or a praying mantis, they do interesting things,” says Catherine Chalmers, and she should know. Chalmers has spent the better part of the last decade raising frogs, praying mantises, snakes,...
View ArticleBirds Do It, Bees Do It: Taking Animals’ Art Skills Seriously
Last year London’s Grant Museum of Zoology staged what organizers thought was the first inter-species show of paintings by animals. Baka, a Sumatran Orangutan who resides at Colorado’s Cheyenne...
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