A Bird’s-eye View

During the coronavirus shutdown in Missouri, museum officials saddened by their empty galleries and zookeepers worried about their bored animals hit upon an ingenious solution: letting some of the tamer, more inquisitive animals out to look at the art. That’s how three penguins from the Kansas City Zoo found themselves perusing the galleries of the nearby Nelson-atkins Museum of Art in May. One development that surprised all the humans involved: Penguins prefer Caravaggio to Monet.