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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“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 […]
Museum of Bad Art, appreciated Globally
The Boston Globe has done an appreciation of the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA). A characteristic painting from the museum is reproduced here, at right. BONUS: MOBA’s director will be among the celebrity scholars in this Saturday’s Ig Nobel event at the Cambridge Public Library, for the Cambridge Science Festival.