The ballerina Anna Pavlova, known for her tremulous solo The Dying Swan, choreographed in 1905 by Michel Fokine, had a pet swan named Jack. Billie Holiday had a boxer named Mister. And Martha Graham owned dachshunds, a breed as long-waisted as she was. George Balanchine, the choreographer and co-founder of the New York City Ballet, took aerial movements first performed by his cat Mourka during playtime and used them in his ballets. If you’re not heading to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for any other reason, go for this exhibition on artists and their pets. A collaboration between the assistant curators of each division—Jenai Cutcher, Annemarie van Roessel, and Jessica Wood—the show draws from the rich archives at the Center’s incomparable library. —Laura Jacobs