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The color red is not visible to a dog's eyes, however this didn't stop Rocky from an interest in the surface and textures of this Elliott Hundley painting on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Jason Falchook.
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The art world has really gone to the dogs.

An event billing itself as “America’s first art show for dogs” will be unleashed in New York this summer, “curated” by a local art critic and her Maltese-Yorkie pup.

“This will be a show not of or by dogs, but for them. It offers an unprecedented opportunity for the creative community to engage with an entirely new species of art lover, and to consider its concerns, interests, and worldview,” writes organizer Jessica Dawson, a former Washington Post critic, in a piece for Criterion Collection. 

Dogumenta — a play on the German art festival Documenta — will open at Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan on Aug. 11.

The show will feature works from 10 local artists, all at dog-eye level, in appropriate hues for pups’ limited color perception, and displayed from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. “to be respectful of the heat sensitivities of our four-legged friends” she told W magazine. 

Dawson, a Chelsea resident, already takes her little dog Rocky to art shows, and she claims he “pants with pleasure” every time she suggests a “gallery crawl” and that he has a great eye for art.

“As we spent more and more time together, it became clear that Rocky had something to teach me — to teach all of us — about finding joy in today’s art world. Among his many skills, I noticed a singular capacity to remain in the moment and to see each artwork with fresh eyes,” she wrote.

Sure some people think she’s barking mad, but that’s just part of creating “revolutionary” art, Dawson told W.

“Any really revolutionary new art-world action is going to be met with both this look of ‘What are you thinking?’ and with a real show of solidarity. That’s what happens when you’re innovating,” she said.

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