If current trends continue, in just a few years all of contemporary
culture will be nothing but an unending stream of cat pictures.
Newspapers desperate to survive will publish only adorable kitten photos;
social networks will strain under the weight of shorthairs and Siamese.
The art world is already getting in on the act: witness the Walker Art
Museum in Minneapolis hosting an internet cat video festival (it drew 10,000 viewers in one day), or White Columns, the avant-garde New York gallery, laying on The Cat Show, featuring "purr-formers in residence".
- The Grauniad
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