![Venice-review_Manet_600](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Venice-review_Manet_600.jpg)
If you are one of those rare humans that are fond of both felines and art, then I’m about to make your daily internet usage a lot more fun. Emily McAllister at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has created an amusing alternative to a blank Internet webpage from inside the Met’s Media Lab.
Meow Met is a downloadable web extension that transforms the dull Chrome tabs you rack up everyday into random works of art that feature cats. No joke. Every time you open a new browser you are faced with a furball, along with a caption giving you the title of the work, the artist, date, and a link to the Met’s website to feed you more information about the work (this is a great marketing technique if you ask me).
![The Favourite Cat and De La-Tour Painter (1813) John Kay](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/meow-met-john-kay-artreport-1024x614.png)
![Cat and Butterfly (19th century), Xu Gu](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/meow-met-xu-gu-artreport-1024x613.png)
![meow-met-theophile-alexandre-steinien-artreport](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/meow-met-theophile-alexandre-steinien-artreport-1024x612.png)
Just to be clear, I am NOT a cat person so I will NOT be constantly opening new tabs in hopes of checking out the latest cat-works. However, as an art enthusiast, I do have some ideas of contemporary works featuring cats in case MoMA wants to cash in on the cat/internet trend…
![d_FNN1cHJMmK7ye9u-xQ0E58MxUIh7Z4H5BOqDzwyU41](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/d_FNN1cHJMmK7ye9u-xQ0E58MxUIh7Z4H5BOqDzwyU41.jpeg)
![Cats_Humphrey_600](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cats_Humphrey_600.jpg)
![Jeff-Koons-2004–2011-Cat-on-a-Clothesline-Yellow-Zoom](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Jeff-Koons-2004–2011-Cat-on-a-Clothesline-Yellow-Zoom.jpg)
![Frisbee-600](https://artreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Frisbee-600.jpeg)
Editor’s Note: Cats are great, the internet is great, Meow MET is really really great, Emily McAllister is my new hero.