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# 39 Both James L. Chung and Evelyn Rojo have offered to give MOBA a piece of bad art. 




> **THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART (MOBA) IN BOSTON**
> 
> Art too bad to be ignored
> 
> **BASIC INFO** → The first exhibition of bad art in MOBA was shown to the world in March 1994, 
> five months after the museum had been founded[^1] in Boston.
> 
> One day antique dealer Scott Wilson discovered a really bad painting in the trash. He liked 
> how bad it was so much that he took it home. He showed it to his friend Jerry Reilly and that 
> was when they created a museum which they called The Museum of Bad Art. They started 
> collecting bad art and later Reilly’s wife Marie helped them prepare the first exhibition for 
> MOBA. 
> 
> **THE EXHIBITION** → Today there are hundreds of pieces of bad art. MOBA’s first piece of art, 
> which Wilson found in the trash, was a portrait of a lady in a field with flowers. Everything 
> except for her hair, chair, and dress is green, so it is a very lively painting. It is still one of the 
> most popular pieces in the museum. 
> 
> **PRACTICAL INFORMATION** → The museum is open Sun/Mon: 11:30 am – 9 pm, Tue – Thu: 
> 11:30 am – 10 pm, and Fri/Sat: 11:30 am – 11 pm. The highest price the museum asks visitors 
> to pay is $6.50, but not as an admission fee, because there is none. The price is for buying a 
> painting if visitors are interested in any. 
> 
> **INTERESTING FACTS** → Although the art has no value, there were two thefts[^2] in the past. In 
>  1996 a painting called *Eileen* disappeared. The museum immediately offered $36.73 for it, but 
> nobody returned it. The second theft happened in 2004, when a painting called *Self Portrait as a Drainpipe* was taken by someone who demanded $10 for its return. However, very soon the 
> painting just appeared back at the museum door without that money being paid. Surprisingly, 
> the same happened with *Eileen* two years later. The thieves were never found.
> 
> After the first theft, museum staff installed a fake security camera inside the museum. But as 
> it did not prevent the other theft no more cameras were added and the one already installed 
> there became a part of the exhibition. 
> 
> **THE BAD CAKE CAFÉ** → The café offers cakes that look just as bad as the paintings. But it is 
> great fun. Guests can decide how much they want to pay for each item on the menu but never 
> less than a dollar. Sometimes people are willing to pay up to $5 for the last ugly, blue muffin. 
> 
> **JOURNALISTS GIVE THEIR VIEWS:**
> 
> **James L. Chung, The Boston Planet:**
> 
> ‘When I visited MOBA for the first time I had so much fun. So, I soon went again with my whole 
> family. That’s when I asked the owners for an interview. They weren’t available until January 
> 2024, but it was worth the wait. The interview took place outside the museum and was fun. 
> They love their museum and are happy that it has so many visitors each year. There are strict 
> rules about what they accept to become a part of the collection. No children’s drawings are 
> accepted for example. I found that out when I offered some of my son’s bad pictures. The 
> owners really don’t want to make fun of the works; they just want to share joy. I definitely 
> recommend that you visit the museum.’
> 
> **Evelyn Rojo, El Arte:**
> ‘You’ll laugh but MOBA was the first museum I visited in the US when I came here in January 
> 2024. And I intend to visit it more than once. Surprisingly, I met the owners there that January 
> day and I asked them for an interview, which took place online six weeks later. As an art lover, 
> I was interested in their reasons for showing bad art. Are they making fun of the artists? No, 
> don’t worry. They just want to show anything can be art if people like it. I offered to give MOBA 
> an excellent, well-known piece of art for the museum to have something nice, but the owners 
> politely refused. I give MOBA five stars!’
> 
> (*www.museumofbadart.org, upraveno*)
>
> [^1]:found: založit
> [^2]:theft: krádež


