On the corner of 5th Avenue and East 27th in Manhattan you will find New York City’s Museum of Sex (MoSex for short). An indiscreet building to say the least, the exterior is grey and pink with multi colored breasts…
The Smithsonian of Cocks: a trip inside the Icelandic Phallological Museum
BY: ADAM THRUSH Remember that kid in class who was always sketching dicks onto his desk? Or maybe the one that simply never stopped talking about them? You may not have expected that a child with such an obsession could…
This project that helps blind people gives new meaning to feeling art
By: Danika Moir Helsinki-based designer Marc Dillon has started the Unseen Art project, which allows the visually impaired to interact with art. Using 3D printing, Dillon is recreating classical art pieces, such as the Mona Lisa, that people are able…
This amazing underwater sculpture museum is vibrant and full of life
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 2006, sculptor and installation artist Jason deCaires Taylor unveiled the first-ever underwater sculpture park, Vicissitudes, located off the coast of Grenada. Today, after two years of hard work, he is featuring his latest project, Musea Atlantica,…
This museum is squashing cell-phone addiction by asking visitors to draw the art instead
BY: JESSICA BEUKER This past summer I visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As I made my way through the paintings, taking pictures of my favourite ones, I looked up and realized something disheartening. Everyone at…
Artist brings the pyramids into museums to show how pieces of history are domesticated
BY: DANIKA MOIR Images by Magdalena Jetelová Installed in several locations between 1992 and 1994, Magdalena Jetelová’s installations of the “Domestication of Pyramids” were used as a visual metaphor of the Western ideology. This ideology involved taking bits of history…
An amazing underwater museum is conserving the ocean in the most haunting way possible
Just off the Mexican coastline, 28 feet below the ocean’s surface, stand over 500 life-sized sculptures making up MUSA: the worlds largest underwater museum. The project began with the objective of diverting divers and snorkelers away from the popular Mesoamerican…
This is the first museum where blind people can see art with their hands
BY: The Plaid Zebra There is something about the historical masterpieces of an art museum that always introduce this nagging sensation in me. Looking at the work of Da Vinci is one thing- but for some reason I always have…