The CBS Sunday Morning television program paid a visit to our friends and colleagues at the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA): BONUS: Back in 2003, CBS Sunday Morning, which was in those wordy days called CBS News Sunday Morning, visited to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony [though there seems not to be video of that online]. And […]
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Van Gogh, Lady Gaga and the implications of eccentricity (study)
Attn. artists! Can you get a higher appraisal for yourself and your art by behaving more eccentrically? Say, by hacking off your own earlobe or “cavorting around in little more than a thong”? Such questions have been examined in a new study from Dr. Eric R. Igou (University of Limerick, Ireland) and Dr. Wijnand A […]
“Intellectual Sewing”: Keeping Proust in Stitches
A new academic sub-discipline is born: “Sewing Proust: Patchwork as Critical Practice,” Rhiannon Williams [pictured here], Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 1, Number 1, November 2013 , pp. 43-56. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at the University of Derby, explains: “I describe my own […]
“Mere Exposure to Bad Art” and The Museum of Bad Art
A new study may be of special interest to anyone who visits The Museum of Bad Art. The study is “Mere Exposure to Bad Art,” Aaron Meskin, Mark Phelan, Margaret Moore, and Matthew Kieran, British Journal of Aesthetic, vol. 53, no. 2 (2013): 139-164. The authors, at the University of Leeds, Lawrence University, and the […]