UNHUNG HEROES

A TOUR GUIDED BY PROFESSOR ANDREW LEAR

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guided by Professor Andrew Lear, the tour explores male members in paintings and sculptures across the Metropolitan. Are these artworks true to life size? Were men really smaller once upon a time? And who broke off the statues’ missing body parts? Is there hidden phallic symbolism in your favorite painting? For museum-goers who’ve ever wondered about these and other questions, this tour has the answers. Visitors learn about the aesthetic ideals of Greek culture and how they have affected the whole history of art without clothes.

Shady Ladies Tours' art museum tours introduce art lovers to some of the sexiest and sauciest works of art in New York City.f f Led personally by Professor Andrew Lear, a leading scholar on the history of sexuality and one of the foremost experts on erotic Greek and Roman art, the toursf reveal the scandalous back-stories behind paintings and sculptures in major New York City museums.f Tours includef Nasty Women of the Metropolitan,f Shady Ladies of the Metropolitanf andf Gay Secrets of the Metropolitan.f f With his groundbreaking work on the history of art and his long experience as a scholar and teacher, Professor Lear is an ideal guide tof give tour-goers an entirely new (and naughty) perspective on both classic and little-known pieces of art.