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MUSEUM OF BAD ART October 18, 2024, to March 30, 2025
The Museum Of Bad Art brings together the best of art that is just “too bad to be ignored”. Painted by anonymous amateur artists, these works have been rescued from garbage bins and found in thrift stores. The museum’s curators offer comical interpretations of the paintings, derisively highlighting their endearing badness. Like no other in the world, the MOBA collection invites us to reconsider our assumptions about art and beauty.

At EXMURO’s Aire publique, paintings of varying degrees of failure line the walls of a Louis XVI style drawing room. The exhibition scenography is inspired by the Salon de peinture et de sculpture, an annual group show presented by the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the time, this elitist event would have excluded the singular creations celebrated today in the Bad Art Salon. Make yourself comfortable with a cup of coffee and soak up the unusual atmosphere!

 

Indoor exhibition
EXMURO’s Aire Publique
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The Museum Of Bad Art is a non-profit community institution based in Somerville, near Boston, MA, that has worked since 1994 to celebrate and preserve bad art in all its forms. It now boasts over 800 works acquired at garage sales and flea markets, donated by their creators, or fished out of the trash.

MOBA’s collection of some of the world’s worst art has been shown internationally in special events and traveling exhibitions, attracting press attention from Harvard and Smithsonian magazines, The Boston Globe, The Independent and The New York Times, among others.