糟糕艺术博物馆带来糟糕的艺术广泛的观众
Collection so awful it will have you laughing
波士顿是世界上最美丽的艺术作品的所在地，包括波士顿美术博物馆的著名藏品，伊莎贝拉斯图尔特加德纳博物馆，以及波士顿当代艺术澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究所。But just outside the city there’s an art institution of a very different sort. For more than 20 years, the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) has been dedicated to presenting the best in bad art. The museum bills itself as “the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition, and celebration of bad art in all its forms.” A recent visit to the museum’s Brookline gallery (other locations are Somerville and South Weymouth, Mass.) confirms the boast. The installations are often hilarious, the captions so tongue-in-cheek they’re laugh-out-loud funny.
Museum of Bad Art founder Scott Wilson launched the project after rescuing a painting, Lucy in the Field with Flowers, from between two garbage cans on a Roslindale sidewalk. After collecting a few other terrible pieces, in 1994 he opened the first MOBA in the basement of a West Roxbury house. Public interest and word of mouth led to the creation of a gallery in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater, where the growing collection resided until 2008, when it moved to a basement space in the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, “conveniently located just outside the men’s room.” The museum also has galleries in the offices of the Brookline Interactive Group and at the New England Wildlife Center in South Weymouth.
MOBA目前的藏品总数约为600件，但在任何时候都只展出一小部分。The museum’s website notes that it is “only through the efforts of the worldwide Friends of MOBA that we have been able to carry out our mission: to bring the worst of art to the widest audience.” All submissions must pass through a rigorous review process (i.e., no children’s art or factory-made tourist pieces are considered). 在一件作品被接受后，博物馆会添加适当的标识，包括标题、艺术家（如果已知）、获取方法和幽默的解释，以完成对顾客的体验。
MOBA’s collection can be viewed on its website, but trust us when we tell you that you can only fully appreciate the true magnitude of these masterpieces in person. 最受欢迎的《星期日与乔治在锅上》被《波士顿环球报》誉为标志性作品，该报还写道，这部作品“百分之百保证会让你笑出来”。
The Museum of Bad Art’s three galleries in Massachusetts: MOBA Brookline Gallery, 46 Tappan St., Brookline, open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; free admission; Somerville Theatre MOBA Gallery, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, open during concerts or when movies are being screened; free admission with purchase of a movie or concert ticket; 在这里找到当前节目的时间表；MOBA新英格兰野生动物中心画廊，南韦茅斯哥伦比亚街500号，周一和周三至周五，上午10点至下午4点开放；周二上午10点至晚上7点；Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; 星期日上午10时至下午2时；free admission. 在这里找到所有画廊的方向。
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