The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s media lab has unveiled an extension for Google Chrome called “Meow Met,” which shows a work of art featuring a cat from the museum’s collection every time a new browser tab is opened.
Designed by Emily McAllister, the extension features pieces by famous artists such as Mary Cassatt, Édouard Manet, Rembrandt, John Singer Sargent, and Walker Evans.
The plug-in is the latest example of how museums have taken to curating cat art to attract millennial visitors. The Brooklyn Museum presented an exhibit about cats in ancient Egypt while Japan Society put on a show about the history of cats in Japanese art, and most famously, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis started a cat video festival that has toured the country.
Chilean artist INTI on Reynoldstown Crossing, Atlanta for Living Walls 2013.Joshua Gwyn—Living WallsFrench artist 3ttman in Summerhill, Atlanta for Living Walls 2013.Joshua Gwyn—Living WallsStreet artist eL Seed's It impossible, Cape Town, South Africa.
Kent Lingeveldt—Itinerrance GalleryStreet artist eL Seed's Lost Wall on the Star Wars film set in Onk el Jmel, Tunisia.
Ouahid Berrehouma—Itinerrance Gallery Abiding In The Broken Heart by DALeast in Malaga, Spain, 2013. Courtesy CAC Málaga French street artist JR's Women Are Heroes dominates the Morro da Providencia favela, one of Brazil's most dangerous, in Rio de Janeiro, August 20, 2008. Vanderlei Almeida—AFP/Getty ImagesThe artwork of Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils decorates the walls with faces that represent the people who live in Providencia, the oldest slum in Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 29, 2012. Luiz Claudio Martins Baltar—Flickr/Getty ImagesThe face of a woman who used to live in the demolished residential block is seen carved into a remaining wall by street artist Vhils and his team in Shanghai on March 1, 2012. Niu Yixin—EPAA piece by Mark Barretto, a Filipino artist currently living in Dubai, created during a return visit to Cavite, Philippines. Mark Barretto—Filipino Street Art ProjectFrench street artist C215's work on the Calada da Pampulha in Lisbon. Jos Vicente—Departamento de Patrimnio CulturalA piece of Roa's rodent series in the East End of London, Nov. 15, 2011.Matthew Lloyd—Getty ImagesCarnaval Latinoamericano by Charquipunk and La Robot de Madera in San Miguel, Chile. Managers Open Air Museum in San Miguel: Mixart Cultural CenterThierry Noir and Stik's historic collaboration on The Village Underground Wall in Shoreditch, London, February 2013.Thierry Noir and Stik
