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Moscow sex museum gives the finger (amongst other body parts) to the Kremlin

Article: Moscow sex museum gives the finger (amongst other body parts) to the Kremlin

Posted August 29th, 2011, 1:08 PM by

photo via the Los Angeles Times
It’s one thing to open a sex museum somewhere like New York City or uber-permissive Iceland, but in Moscow? A stone’s throw from the Kremlin? Now that takes balls. The new Museum of Eroticism, the largest sex museum in Europe, is the brainchild of Alexander Donskoy, the one-time mayor of a small town near Moscow who was sent to prison and barred from politics soon after he decided to run for the presidency back in 2008 (coincidence? he thinks not).

Art gallery sentries

Article: Art gallery sentries

Posted July 02nd, 2009, 10:07 AM by

Walking around art galleries in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, photographer Andy Freeberg noticed a certain trend and began documenting it in his series “Sentry: Gallery Desks in Chelsea.” [At] some of the biggest galleries there are giant entry desks, where the top of the head of the desk sitter is often the only other human…