The Museum of Bad Art
I ran across a very amusing website quite long ago. It is the webpage for an
actual museum, The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), based in Boston. By now I haven’t the slightest idea how I managed to stumble upon this, but I sure am glad I did! I just rediscovered it looking through bookmarks for things worth sharing. There are some real classics, and the art curator descriptions generally send me into a second, heartier round of laughter.
Check out The Museum of Bad Art and and look around. A few of my favorites are: Pauline Resting — read the excerpt from MOBA news towards the bottom of the page; Dog — unexplicable and great description; and Mama and Babe — very freaky, great commentary. Don’t miss Inspiration, More, Think Again and Suicide either.
This museum literally got its start by pulling paintings from the trash. They regularly do strange things like have galleries of bad artwork out in the middle of a forest, shrink wrap the artwork and hang it outside as a drive-thru galley and other great nonsensish-ness.
My only regret with this webpage is that the resolution of the images is a little low and there aren’t new ones added all that often. It looks like they have a coffee table book for sale though — if only I had I a coffee table and horizontal surfaces weren’t such valuable commodities in the apartment…
I really get a kick out of MOBA every time I visit though, and it is nice to forget about it altogether and rediscover it now and again. If I had some space around here I would be a fun and pointless endeavor to start something similar in Honolulu. I have a feeling that there is a lot of sleeping talent here — I’d bet I have it in me to create some monsters like those on MOBA.