If you heard peals of laughter ringing out through the quiet, reverent halls of an art museum, what would your reaction be? Would you “tut-tut” in their general direction, maybe shoot them a glare or ...

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “The Grand Odalisque” (1814) this was in the artist’s day considered a bold and scandalous image. But on closer examination it was demonstrated that the figure is ...