It’s just a joke – a museum of bad art? I suspect that MOBA provides many interesting questions – and probably insights – what do you think?
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.The WikiPedia article tells us;
The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is a world-renowned institution dedicated to showcasing the finest art acquired from Boston-area refuse.
The museum started in a pile of trash in 1994, in a serendipitous moment when an antiques dealer came across a painting of astonishing power and compositional incompetence that had been tragically discarded.
Its magnetic pull was immediate; it has since inspired a collection of 500 masterful pieces of art so awful they prompt viewers to appeal loudly for divine intervention.
Located next to two Massachusetts bathrooms, the museum’s collection aspires to be a monument to creative ecstasy that has resulted in glorious failure.
Only the most arresting paintings and sculptures are accepted by MOBA, but priority goes to those that prominently feature a monkey or a poodle.
Public reaction has been overwhelming, freeing the art-loving community to point and laugh at art everywhere.
Two of their pieces have been stolen, so alarming the museum that they promptly offered a reward in the amount of $6.50 for their return. Some of their more notable pieces show a footless John Ashcroft wearing a diaper, and a hula skirt-wearing wiener dog juggling bones. Such enigmatic images invoke so many mysteries that they are often unable to be explained by artists themselves. (more…)
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