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Museum of Bad Art

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205 points purkka | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 00:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rectang ◴[18 Nov 24 17:28 UTC] No.42174667[source]▶
I dislike it. Ostensibly this is taking on art museum snobbery, but many of these works are by amateurs and were literally pulled out the trash. It feels like an embittered teacher making fun of a kid, while the class snickers at the spectacle of public humiliation.

To each of the artists: congratulations for having the courage to trust in your imagination. I hope that others have engaged with your works with greater generosity.

EDIT: There’s a missed opportunity here for a critic to participate in the exhibition by praising the works sincerely. (If museum goers can detect sarcasm then the critique has failed.) That would be more fun and it wouldn’t even be hard since the works have already set expectations low.

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CivBase ◴[19 Nov 24 14:06 UTC] No.42183556[source]▶
Are the works anonymous or do they call out the artist? I'd they're anonumous, I don't see much harm.
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1. rectang ◴[19 Nov 24 19:07 UTC] No.42186976[source]▶
All artists are credited if known — and most are, if only because they've signed their work. It's hard to imagine MOBA doing otherwise — they're already copying without permission (I assume), and deliberately suppressing artist identities while ridiculing their copied works would be gauche even if legally defensible as satire.

MOBA's schtick is to present these works as alternatives to "important" art, which is cool. But they just can't help themselves and lay on the snark heavy and thick.