DEAR READER, If monkeys could operate TikTok, X, and Facebook, a shitstorm would have been due long ago. But they can't! Therefore, the art history of monkey appropriation is allowed to continue unpunished. Even in ancient Egypt there were pictures of musical baboons, in 16th-century Dutch genre art, monkeys go about their domestic activities like you and me, and around 1640 Jan Brueghel the Younger painted a wonderful satire with lots of monkeys about the tulip mania, the legendary mass hysteria in which the prices of tulip bulbs were briefly whipped to astronomical heights until the market suddenly collapsed in 1637, ruining many speculators. In the playful Rococo period, however, the parody of our siblings in the animal kingdom became a real mania: >>Singerie<< (from the French »singe« for monkey) became a separate genre in painting and the decorative arts: entire castle walls were populated by monkeys in gallant costumes, and in Meissen, master Johann Joachim Kaendler designed a complete orchestra of exalted, musical primates in knee-breeches for the porcelain manufactory.