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Uses of a Dead Cat in History: Millman's Dead Cat Museum and Curio Shop

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

"Meet the scribe"

"I think he was a celebrity."

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

Party Animals.

Culture Saturday

'Of all the nerve!...Making us sit through the whole of their Bayeux Tapestries!!'

"An unfortunate museum gift shop." "Banksy activity set." "Jackson Pollock coloring book." "MC Escher building blocks." "Claes Oldenburg miniatures." "Marceau Marceau CDs." "Seurat's connect-the-dots aaAAAAA."

"Why don't you find a museum!"

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."

"You're my Mona Lisa."

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

Fertility goddess. Nanny goddess.

"Me? How about you go closer and read the plaque!"

Couple Sitting in Front of A Sunset.

They don't feed the animals in here very well, do they!

A child at a museum starts to pull the wrappings off a mummy.

"Could we be getting a little too museum-quality?"

"The article says there was a break-in at the museum last night. I don't suppose you know anything about that."

The Other Cooperstown

An ancient Egyptian exhibit at a museum.

"Swiping won't cut it sonny-boy, you have to physically walk to the next painting."

Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and the Art of Conversation

"No - you’re right. It’s dumb."

A hammer in his den enjoying a cigar and port with his collection of trophy thumbs above his head.

Raphael

"Then what happened?"

"Perhaps in my next life I'll be a jpeg."

"Makes me wish I'd kept that gorilla suit."

Da Vinci painting a grumpy version of Mona Lisa.

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."

I love Museum Shops

'What do you suppose he's trying to say?'

"A wise choice sir! Aah. . . Da Vinci - a genius of the Renaissance and a man who changed the face of art forever! Would you like that as a bookmark, a pencil sharpener or a fridge magnet. . . ?"