Museum of Bad Art

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What’s Wuv Got To Do with It?

Dateline: Uncanny Valley
There’s a thin line between cute and creepy. Suri Cruise, Justin Bieber, Andy’s Good Guy doll before it morphed into Chucky — all teeter on that uneasy fence.
By MICHAEL C. WALSH | September 16, 2010

Apartment aid

Outfit your digs with bad art, help save a life
Back from an arduous vacation full of nail-biting beer-pong battles and vigorous Wii tennis matches, you enter the dilapidated dorm or apartment where you'll be spending the next year doing much the same.
By IAN SANDS | August 31, 2009

Our bad

Letters to the Boston editor, May 30, 2008
As the Curator in Chief of the Museum of Bad Art, I would like to thank Ian Sands and the Boston Phoenix for the article about the opening of our new gallery in the Somerville Theatre.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 28, 2008

Torturous portraits

Crappy art near Somerville johns
If you’d gone downstairs to pee during a movie two Wednesdays ago at the Somerville Theatre, chances are you stumbled upon a gallery opening in the works.
By IAN SANDS | May 21, 2008

40 years of Boston (Phoenix) food

A long-time writer reflects on our city’s culinary history
Food and cultural historian Laura Shapiro likes to point out a certain week in 1963 when Julia Child first appeared on WGBH and Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique .
By ROBERT NADEAU | November 15, 2006