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The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is a privately owned museum whose stated aim is
"to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and
appreciated in no other forum".[1] It has two branches, one in Dedham,
Massachusetts, and the other in nearby Somerville. Its permanent collection
includes 500 pieces of "art too bad to be ignored", 25 to 35 of which are on
public display at any one time.[2]
MOBA was founded in 1994, after antique dealer Scott Wilson showed a
painting he had recovered from the trash to some friends, who suggested
starting a collection. Within a year, receptions held in Wilson's friends'
home were so well-attended that the collection required its own viewing
space. The museum moved to the basement of a theater in Dedham. Explaining
the reasoning behind the museum's establishment, co-founder Jerry Reilly
said in 1995: "While every city in the world has at least one museum
dedicated to the best of art, MOBA is the only museum dedicated to
collecting and exhibiting the worst."[3] To be included in MOBA's
collection, works must be original and have serious intent, but they must
also have significant flaws without being boring; curators are not
interested in displaying art that is deliberately kitsch.
MOBA has been mentioned in dozens of off-the-beaten-path guides to Boston,
featured in international newspapers and magazines, and has inspired several
other collections throughout the world that set out to rival its own visual
atrocities. Deborah Solomon of The New York Times Magazine noted that the
attention the Museum of Bad Art receives is part of a wider trend of museums
displaying "the best bad art".[4] The museum has been criticized for being
anti-art, but the founders deny this, responding that its collection is a
tribute to the sincerity of the artists who persevered with their art
despite something going horribly wrong in the process. According to
co-founder Marie Jackson, "We are here to celebrate an artist's right to
fail, gloriously."[
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What constitutes good or
bad art is, of
course, a matter of personal opinion; one person's treasure can be
another's garbage. This collection was inspired ...
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The Museum Of
Bad Art (MOBA) is
the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation,
exhibition and celebration of
bad art in all
its forms.
www.museumofbadart.org/
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One of Chapel Street's highlight events
since 2004 is the Museum of Particularly
Bad Art
Exhibition, (MOPBA), and the Itchiball Prize. ...
www.mopba.org/
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The Museum of
Bad Art (MOBA) is
a privately owned museum whose stated aim is "to celebrate the labor of
artists whose work would be displayed and ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Bad_Art
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The Museum Of
Bad Art (MOBA):
The Collection. ... Help us to bring the worst art to the widest
possible audience: Donate as little as $1 to MOBA this very ...
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Acknowledging Jim Shaw's show as an
inspiration, this site presents loads of
bad art divided
into seven galleries. Plus, it's regularly updated. ...
www.artnet.com/magazine/.../garcia-fenech2-18-99.asp
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