Museum of Bad Art, a Celebration of the LowBrow – NYTimes.com

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Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame)

“Bad art” — rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops — has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/design/03badart.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

A BLUE woman and her red daughter smile with the hungry mouths of zombie maniacs. The hand of a Bigfoot grazes the breast of a topless unicorn mermaid. Faces decorate the pregnant belly of a pantsless man-boy.

It’s the wondrous, if not always wonderful, world of art so bad it’s good — or at least great fun to look at.