Sasha Archibald is a writer and curator. Her essays about picture-making, obsolete spectacles, and historical byways have appeared in Cabinet, The Believer, East of Borneo, Rhizome, Night Papers, Modern Painters, The New Inquiry, Mladina, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications, and in a number of books and catalogues. Former Director of Programs at the arts non-profit Clockshop, she is currently working on an exhibition of the work of Sara Kathryn Arledge for Armory Center for the Arts, and developing an online curatorial project that will launch in early 2018. She is an editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine.
Feline Darlings and the Anti-Cute
“YouTube speaks a tale of catness thoroughly at odds with feline history,” writes curator Sasha Archibald. For her contribution to the book, Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong, she looks to art, literature, and pop culture to show how the cat’s status as “cute icon extraordinaire” is recent, supplanting its early role as a symbol of “magical metamorphosis, potent danger, sexual provocation, and impervious autonomy.”