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Book List for Lunar New Year: Year of the Fire Horse

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Published: February 17, 2026 23:10

Happy #LunarNewYear! 2026 marks the #YearOfTheHorse — specifically, the #FireHorse. To help celebrate, here is a list of books about horses in art. (If you have one to recommend that isn’t listed here, please let me know!) Continue reading The post Book…

List of Exhibitions for Lunar New Year: Year of the Fire Horse!

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Published: February 17, 2026 21:31

Happy #LunarNewYear! 2026 marks the #YearOfTheHorse — specifically, the #FireHorse. Museums and galleries around the world are celebrating with special exhibitions on the horse in art. Below is a list of confirmed openings—if you know of any at a venue…

UPDATE: Blog still under construction, but social media is now fully active!

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Published: January 1, 2025 17:00

Just a quick FYI, I’m still working on getting full-length blog posts published on here (a combination of updating and transferring material from old sites and working on writing new stuff), but you can check out the social media feeds on Facebook,…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for Whooping Crane Day: Audubon’s “Hooping Cranes”

https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2024/05/28/animal-art-of-the-day-for-whooping-crane-day-audubons-hooping-cranes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=animal-art-of-the-day-for-whooping-crane-day-audubons-hooping-cranes

Published: May 29, 2024 03:30

Today is #WhoopingCraneDay! The Whooping Crane (Grus americana) is an endemic North American species that is the continent’s tallest native bird. It is also one of our flagship conservation success stories, having very nearly gone extinct in the early 20th…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for International Chameleon Day: Sean Kenney’s LEGO masterpiece

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Published: May 10, 2024 03:00

Today (9 May 2024) is the inaugural celebration of International Chameleon Day! Wildlife Madagascar is launching this animal appreciation day to highlight the remarkable diversity of chameleon species and shed light on the challenges they face in the wild.…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Donkey Day: The art of making an ass of yourself in ancient Greece

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Published: May 9, 2024 03:00

Happy #WorldDonkeyDay! Here are the perfect party cups to celebrate with… The Donkey-Head Drinking Vessels of Ancient Greece Ceramic animal-head rhyta and similar drinking cups created by Attica potters were popular novelty items in Classical Greece (c.…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: Today is Both Audubon Day and International Flamingo Day, So Here Is Audubon’s Flamingo!

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Published: April 27, 2024 02:30

Since both Audubon Day and International Flamingo Day are celebrated annually on the 26th of April, what better work to spotlight today than John J. Audubon’s famous flamingo print from his magnum opus, The Birds of America… On the 7th of May, 1832, while…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for International Tasmanian Devil Day: Early Natural History Art of the “Bear Opossum”

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Published: April 2, 2024 00:30

Today is not only a #MarsupialMonday, but it’s also the first annual International Tasmanian Devil Day! The Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is an endangered marsupial species endemic to Australia. Although it once ranged across the mainland…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for Vincent Van Gogh’s Birthday, Part 2: Van Gogh’s Cats

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Published: March 31, 2024 03:30

Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born #OTD (Zundert, Netherlands 30 March 1853 – Auvers-sur-Oise, France 29 July 1890). And since today is also #Caturday, here is a closer look at the cats found in his art — including one that got painted out of a second…

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for Vincent Van Gogh’s Birthday, Part 1: Van Gogh’s Rabbits

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Published: March 31, 2024 02:30

Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born #OTD (Zundert, Netherlands 30 March 1853 – Auvers-sur-Oise, France 29 July 1890). And since it’s also Easter Bunny time, here is a closer look at his two surviving works featuring rabbits, plus a few quotes from his letters…