Artists always use something beautiful as their source of inspiration - and what could actually be more beautiful than cats? No, I’m being absolutely serious - cats are incredible, even for me as a ...

A careless moment in a 15th-century workshop involving one curious cat walking across freshly inked parchment has turned into a rare time capsule of everyday medieval life. More than 500 years later, ...

Inky paw prints on a 15th-century Flemish manuscript The Walters Museum More than 500 years ago, after dedicating hours to the meticulous transcription of a crucial manuscript, a Flemish scribe set ...

In the 1470s, a Flemish scribe left some meticulously drafted pages of an illuminated manuscript out to dry, only to find out the next day that his cat had trod over them, leaving inky paw prints on ...

Cats are fast infiltrating every sector of the art world, with the “world’s largest cat painting” selling at Sotheby’s last year for $826,000, a giant cat video by Fischli and Weiss recently ...

Cats have the uncanny ability to get into the strangest of places. They've got a knack for wandering around. Often, you might never know where they've been. But sometimes, these stealthy animals ...

Celebrated for her children’s books, the illustrator channeled the intensity of childhood perception into lesser-known but striking lithographs. By Walker Mimms If you plan to catch the tail end of ...