Shady Ladies Tours

Shady Ladies Tours uncovers the sexy and scandalous backstories behind the masterworks of world art. The company is the brainchild of Professor Andrew Lear, a world expert on gender and sexuality in art history. It offers several different tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on themes such as the Shady Ladies (courtesans and royal mistresses in art) and the Nasty Women (ambitious and powerful women in history).