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My mom left all her artwork to me, but it's not really my aesthetic. Would I be a terrible daughter if I took them down?
By Cary Tennis
April 5, 2007
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A teacher gets suspended for attempting to teach art history.
By Rebecca Traister
October 3, 2006
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Readers respond to recent articles about missing WMD, toppling Bush in '04, and Andrew Sullivan on how the liberal media stole Iraqi looting.
June 13, 2003
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The sacking of Iraq's museums is like a "lobotomy" of an entire culture, say art experts. And they warned the Pentagon repeatedly of this potential catastrophe months before the war.
By Louise Witt
April 17, 2003
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Overserious, rushed and muddled, the Museum of Sex comes across like an awkward adolescent on a first date.
By Damien Cave
October 11, 2002
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Two New York shows highlight the photographer's brief sojourn into the world of women with lush, fleshy bodies.
By David Bowman
February 1, 2002
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The curator of the "Erotic Picasso" show in Paris talks about why the artist's most ribald work probably won't come to the U.S.
By Debra Ollivier
May 10, 2001
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The curator of the world's only penis museum is a bit sensitive about some issues.
By Josh Schonwald
March 27, 2001
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The Museum of London acquires a penis-shaped cup for its collection of 18th century pornographic objects.
By Jack Boulware
February 20, 2001
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Big bucks drive the van Gogh accessory business.
By Barry Raine
August 14, 2000
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The Mütter Museum reveals medicine as the gruesome and inexact art that it is.
By Robert Strauss
April 10, 2000
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A new book about Tom of Finland says the artist was the first to show homosexual masculinity.
By Michael Alvear
April 8, 2000
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The hottest art show in America is never better than Tom Cruise in his underwear. Wouldn't a nice Kate Spade handbag be so much more practical?
By Sarah Vowell
March 29, 2000
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If the British Museum returned Lord Elgin's treasures to Greece, how safe would any loot be?
By Elkan Allan
February 5, 2000
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The new Museum of Death offers a dark spot in otherwise shiny Los Angeles.
By Stephen Lemons
February 1, 2000
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From opium-addicted housewives to cocaine cough syrup, the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum traces the history of illegal drugs in America.
By Ron Dicker
September 28, 1999
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The Museum of Menstruation sustains the flow of knowledge in a little-known field.
By Mary Roach
September 10, 1999
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In theory, swearing off male attention is easy, but ignoring a flirtatious smile is almost impossible.
By Kate Convissor
June 11, 1999
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A new mecca for Silicon Valley By Simon Firth The Tech Museum is full of innovative wonders -- just don't expect to see the Valley's darker side represented
By Simon Firth
November 2, 1998
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Is culture endangered in the digital age? By Chris Bray Ironies abound at a Los Angeles conference pondering the future of museums and libraries
By Chris Bray
October 29, 1998
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The media is the psycho-social viewmaster through which we watch our own disgraces.
By Cintra Wilson
February 10, 1998
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As a high-tech new Steinbeck museum is constructed in Salinas, Calif., the author -- who loathed his hometown -- is probably spinning in his grave.
By Jenn Shreve
October 22, 1997
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Myth and reality commingle at Culver City's Museum of Jurassic Technology.
By John McMurtrie
October 14, 1997
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At GracelandToo, a father-and-son team is determined to capture every Elvis mention alive.
By Christina Boufis
August 12, 1997
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You want art? Look through the hole in the token, jiveasses
By Cintra Wilson
June 24, 1996
My walls are covered with my mother's paintings
Really bad trip ... to a museum
The end of civilization
MOSEX opens doors -- earth doesn't move
Irving Penn's nudes
Voluptuous curves
Show me yours
The one-eared bandit
War Room
How the World Works