Bruce Nauman’s “Clown Torture” vintage exhibit invites its audience to see the pain bubbling beneath a veneer of jubilance.

Clowns are meant to make you smile, but sometimes, they stick in your head for all the wrong reasons. Horror films have ...

Some artists draw clown faces on the masks with teardrops falling from their eyes — an image that, in addition to “Smile Now, Cry Later,” is often also linked with another ‘60s soul song ...