Is the museum guide losing your attention? The new Shady Ladies Tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York promise to put the fun back into history and art while leading you on a city excursion with a decidedly cheeky edge. Brought to you by the same professionals behind Oscar Wilde Tours, Shady Ladies Tours exposes the scandalous side of the art while sharing the serious and more thought-provoking component of how sexuality has been expressed via art throughout history, incarnated in a host of fascinating cultural and societal forms. Tours at the Met expose courtesans, mistresses and beauties spanning the ages from ancient Greek depictions to contemporary art. Themed tours include the engrossing and revealing Shady Ladies expedition; Gay Secrets of the Metropolitan, examining the hiding-in-plain-sight artistic portrayal of same-sex love across the years; and Sexy Secrets of the MFA, with a look at erotic themes in the museum’s permanent collection. Tours are led by Professor Andrew Lear of Oscar Wilde Tours, widely recognized as a leading scholar on the history of sexuality and a renowned expert on eroticism in Greek and Roman art. Lear, who was awarded the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching four times, is also a stellar guide with a gift for making culture accessible to all.