Chimp Art

A half-century after Jackson Pollock’s heyday here, a local resident wants to push for a new breed of paint splatterers: a colony of chimps.

For the last decade Audra Allen has devoted her life to providing art therapy to a loose network of captive chimps in the United States and Britain. Now, rather than drop in on them periodically, she wants to build a permanent refuge where the animals can come to live and to spread paint — both to mitigate the depression of captivity, she said, and to reframe the old “Is It Art?” question.

Chimp Art - New York Times