These days everything is considered collectible.
And we mean EVERYTHING….. Even bad art whose unsung artists were discovered by thrift store shoppers and dumpster divers.
THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART in Dedham, MA celebrates artists who started with good intentions until something went horribly wrong. Or as co-founder Marie Jackson put it, “We are here to celebrate an artist’s right to fail, gloriously.”
MOBA (as it’s fondly known) has been so well received, others have been opening around the country, like this one in Seattle, recently featured on Evening Magazine
The Big Pig has a huge collecton of paintings, prints, and frames to spruce up your decor and show off your taste – which, like the artwork is sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always in the eye of the beholder.
“….Stirring in its portrayal of feline angst. Is Peter hungry or contemplating his place in a hungry world? The artist has evoked both hopelessness and glee with his irrational use of negative space.”
-Acquired from Salvation Army Thrift Store, Hyde Park