Primate Aesthetics

Last summer while browsing a used bookstore, my finger came to rest on the medium gray spine of a book entitled Monkey Painting.49 Curiosity piqued, I pulled it. On the cover was a photograph of a chimpanzee in a high chair. The combination of this bizarre image and the apparent misnomer50 of the title had […]

During one of my thesis meetings, my advisor asked me what I wanted to do after I graduated. “I want to teach. Art, probably,” I said, “but, I really like science. So I’m torn as to what to do next, frankly.” She thought for a moment, and then she said, “There’s a conference you might […]

At the closing banquet for the Primate Behavioral Management Conference, I was seated next to Brenda McCowen. I wanted to tell her how exciting her work was to me, but I was also nervous that I might not understand it fully, or that I might embarrass myself by oversimplifying. But my advisor was also there, […]