20 Dec 2024

The art gallery celebrating bad art

From Nine To Noon, 9:30 am on 20 December 2024
Lucy in the Field with Flowers (bottom left) The Rescue (top left) MOBA's Boston gallery (right) is presented in the style of a traditional modern museum.

Lucy in the Field with Flowers (bottom left) The Rescue (top left) MOBA's Boston gallery (right) is presented in the style of a traditional modern museum. Photo: Supplied_MOBA

The Museum Of Bad Art was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1993 to collect, exhibit, and celebrate art that is too bad to be ignored. 

The paintings in the MOBA Collection, whether purchased in thrift stores or yard sales, rescued from the trash, or donated by their creators, represent sincere attempts to create meaningful art, but something has gone terribly wrong in their execution or concept. 

Louise Reilly Sacco is the director of the Museum of Bad Art and joins Kathryn Ryan to discuss the museum and its aim to challenge how we determine what is successful art

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