Until you read the exhibition hand-out.
In an adjacent gallery, a complementary exhibition, "Hands on History: Dig into the Past" is intended for children and families.
I watched old flames reigniting all around me couples wandered the exhibition floor hand in hand and nuzzled one another while listening to seminars dedicated to "creating bedroom bliss".
If the exhibition at hand offers less graphic carnality than some might anticipate, it nevertheless rewards careful looking with a more sublimated kind of eroticism.
So is the Portland Children's Museum (503-223-6500; www.popenandcMonday open Monday through Saturday 9 to 5; Sunday 11 to 5 p.m.; admission $7), with a hands-on construction exhibition, a hand-cranked water "conveyor belt," a pint-size grocery store and craft studios.
Exhibition of hand-pulled prints.
ERDMAN ART GALLERY "Ecclesiastes," exhibition of hand-colored woodcuts by Paul Bonelli.
But these complement a continuing exhibition, "Black Hands, Blue Seas: The Maritime Heritage of African-Americans," which opened last October and continues through March 2007.
Beginning on Sunday, it's back to the time of Albrecht Dürer and Pieter Bruegel at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which calls its new show the first major exhibition of hand-colored prints from the 16th and 17th centuries.
A group exhibition called "Hands Off My Cuntry" features erotic artwork addressed to the president-elect, proving there is nothing wrong with a dirty mind as long as you keep your conscience clean.
At Ernie Wolfe Gallery, which specializes in African art and is located at the heart of the small Japanese community in West L.A., there is an exhibition of hand-painted images of Michael Jackson done by a number of self-taught contemporary African artists.
