Medieval contraptions and torture devices are on view at the new LA museum. (all photos courtesy the Medieval Torture Museum) “The Medieval Torture Museum is meant to feed off the emotions of people ...
If you’re wondering if the Rothenburg Torture Museum, or more correctly the Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum is appropriate for kids, let me tell you about the time I became “that parent.” When we ...
Some may be disturbed, others may be grossed out and a few might find it fascinating, but most visitors to this new museum in Los Angles will have a hard time forgetting all of the unbelievably cruel ...
French philosopher Georges Bataille wrote in his 1949 essay The Cruel Practice Of Art that art "puts us on the path of complete destruction and suspends us there for a time, [offering] us ravishment ...