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Apr

Andy Warhol, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

United colors of cats

Everybody knows the famous series of Andy Warhol’s colorful Marilyn Monroe silkscreen prints. We, Zarathustra the Cat, decided to reveal a secret series of cat prints, made by the great artist and cat lover at the same time. We posed to him with Our tongue out, trying to be...

Apr

Vincent van Gogh, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Do cats love irises?

Once, at a nice spring day, We posed to Vincent Van Gogh, animating his still life with irises: My dear cat friends, never perform this trick by yourself! Unfortunately beautiful flowers are toxic for cats. Better not to eat them, but just drop the vase from the table, you human...

Mar

LACMA, René Magritte

The Treachery of Images. This is not a cat!

If you see a mess in your house, your favorite pipe lying at the floor, catnip scattered around, and your cat rolling on his back, you think the disaster is his blame. Nope, it’s just the treachery of images, it’s not a cat who did it! Genious René Magritte was the...

Jan

Frida Kahlo, Museum of Modern Art Mexico

Two Fridas and One Cat

From the story of the Tower of Babel you already know that cats can unite nations. They can also unite split personalities: it doesn’t matter which avatar of Frida is present now, the thing that unites her egos is not only one physical body, but also one love for her cat! Frida...

Jan

Andrew Wyeth, MoMA

Long way home at Christina’s World

Here We are, the two models for the true version of “Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth. Do you know that Christina, the subject of this painting, suffered from polio in real life? She couldn’t walk, that is why she looks to her house as to some unachievable dream. So We...

Dec

Dali

Irresistable Temptation

Do you know the worst temptation for a general cat lover? Of course it is to adopt another cat! Do you think St.Anthony could resist to adopt 5 ginger kitties, 3 elephants and one naked lady? Please notice that it is a presence of large orange cats that makes this company...

Sep

Galerie Belvedere, Klimt

Do Cats Like Human Kisses?

Our beloved brothers and sisters cats, do you like when your humans kiss you? Gustav Klimt thought that We love it. Or, at least, We can tolerate it: Yes, We can tolerate a lot from Our beloved being, even his weird way to show his affection. A kiss, really what is that? All...

Aug

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monet

Bathing in the pond of water lillies and other summer delights

Summer time. Heat. Cats are melting like clocks at the famous Salvador Dali’s painting. It’s so refrshing to plunge into a pond full of water lillies and drink water with the taste of duckweed and flowers! Once Claude Monet saw Us taking such a bath and he was very...

Jul

Edward Hopper

Giant octo-pussy causes ground swell

It’s a giant octo-pussy that causes ground swell! This breathtaking discovery it to be foundat the original version of the famous masterpiece of Edward Hopper: This painting shows purr-fectly at what thing all sailors are staring at and why they are seem to be hypnotized....

May

Banksy

Banksy or not Banksy?

“Banksy or not Banksy?” – This is the question that should every modern Hamlet to ask instead of usual “To be or not to be?”. What to do if, waking up in the morning, you see a fresh graffiti on the wall of your house? To take off the masterpiece from the wall ruining it, and to...

Feb

Damien Hirst

Genius and villainy

Today We, Zarathustra the Cat, would like to offer to our audience a theme for discussion: Is the artist allowed to kill animals for the sake of Art? And do we, not human beings, have a chance to join the beautiful staying alive. Recently one of the most popular now living...

May

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Edward Hopper

The Ginger Sun

In the place where We actually live it is sunny now (if on can say about the place of internet cat that has wave–particle duality). We decided to look at the sun by eyes of great American artist Edward Hopper: If you compare the original of the famous painting presented here to...