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Massachusetts has a museum for bad art

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Massachusetts actively hosts a gallery where actual artistic talent is considered a massive liability. Curators meticulously source their highly aggressive collection from thrift stores and dumpsters, specifically looking for canvases that are genuinely terrible but fiercely void of any intentional irony.

Massachusetts has a museum for bad art
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