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Jun

Flower or Turkey Pie?

Fresh odour of the miracle of nature or seductive smell of the humain’s creation: what will modern enlightened cat choose? We are so gracious in our aspiration to the Beauty: The difficulty of choice between fresh and ephemere flower beauty and not less fresh and ephemere...

Apr

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Tower of Babel is a Diptych!

We, Zarathustra the Cat now present the original version of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s famous painting, that appeared to be a diptych. Here is the first part of it, further go details and the second part: The commonly known version of this painting is the pearl of Museum...

Apr

Pere Borrell Del Caso

Escaping Criticism

We, Zarathustra the Cat, already told you, how dangerous art criticists can be, how they can damage free art development by their snobbish thinking. It was the subject of the painting “Escaping Criticism” by a famous catalan artist Pere Borrell Del Caso: Pere Borrell...

Mar

sculpture

Good Shepherds

We, Zarathustra the Cat, couldn’t roam so freely at the world wide web without the help of good shepherds, there are manades of Us in the internet. The good shepherds tell Us stories of culture from all over the world, bring us recent news from the places We never was,...

Mar

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Tower of Babel Diptych, part 1

Dear friends and cat lovers from all over the world, We, Zarathustra the Cat graciousely decided to make humanity happier offline. Diptych by Pieter Bruegel “Tower of Babel” to be seen at Rotterdam Museum Night 9th March. Here goes the first part of it, the rest will...

Feb

Lucas Cranach The Elder, National Gallery of Denmark

Venus and the Cat Hunting Birds

They say that We, Cats are natural born killers. But don’t forget that humans introduced cats in their society because of cats hunting abilities, and now humans themselves took mission of rats henocide by means of chemical weapon that is much more efficient than noble hunt....

Jan

Rijksmuseum, Evert Collier

The Cat and the CATalogue

They say that cats are very egocentric beings and thus they are subject to vanity. The truth is far from it: it is not vanity; it is just right self-esteem. And of course we, cats like when others also estimate us rightly. We, Zarathustra the Cat were pleased to receive a...

Jan

Adriaen van Utrecht, Rijksmuseum

And where is Russian salad?

Dutch Still Life of the Golden XVII century is a realm of opulence where you seem to find everything you want. It works better if you add a cat to it: Adriaen van Utrecht, Still Life improved by the Cat, 1644 Look how the Cat’s noble presence ameliorates the colors of...

Jan

Willem Claesz Heda

The Cat Chef Recommends

For the tasty breakfast at the beginning of the New Year, the Cat chef recommends a crab! With this wise advice We, Zarathustra the Cat begin a new column dedicated to the Arrrt of Still Life and to the Arrrt of cooking, as French people call them in a very cat’s manner, la...

Dec

Rijksmuseum, Jan Steen

Happy New Year for the Merry Family!

We, Zarathustra the Cat, kindly wish to all famillies to have such a great New Year party as the merry family had at the masterpiece of Jan Steen in 1668: And remember: the source of happiness in every house is a cat in it! Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat BUY THIS ARTWORK...

Dec

charity, Rosso Fiorentino

Why We are so merry…

Because of the success of the currency exchange action for cats sake led by Us, Zarathustra the Cat and Our beloved brother Hank the Cat who run for Senate! Today We brought 953 dollars collected in this action to Rzevka animal shelter in St.Petersburg, Russia! Now comes time of...

Dec

Katsushika Hokusai

Happy End of the World Day!

…for all of you, and as to Us, the Cats, We shall feel Ourselves in compete comfort even in the conditions of the tsunami. So We, Cats shall take care about you, humans, don’t worry: How the end of the world in general and in particular the tsunami is uncomfortable...