This article was first published on the Metropolitan Museum of Art site. The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of Printed Ephemera in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints ...
“Scandalous!” the Chicago newspapers proclaimed in reports from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. American impresario Sol Bloom purportedly shocked Victorian America--in order to boost ticket ...
Suzy Evans has spent a significant chunk of her life debunking myths about belly dancers. “There were so many times when I came across people who thought that belly dancers were like strippers,” she ...