Divya Anantharaman at the Rogue Taxidermy Fair. Photo by the author. When taxidermy became popular during the Victorian era, it was mostly men who hunted, skinned, fleshed, and stuffed the animals.

Since the far-off times of Ancient Egypt, women and cats have been aligned in art and culture, taking root in ideas about wisdom, independence, cunning, warfare and protection, and secret or occult ...

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 ...