The book 'Cats,' forthcoming from Phaidon, surveys felines in a wide range of art forms throughout the millennia.

As happens in the New Year, new ideas move to the forefront of the imagination, but on rare occasions, a call in the night ...

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, ...

Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...