Bad Art

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 8 p.m.

b'Art Too Bad to Be Ignored
Guest:\\xa0Louise Reilly Sacco,\\xa0Permanent Acting Interim Executive Director of the Museum of Bad Art, located in Somerville, Massachusetts
Some pieces of art are too bad to be ignored. That\\u2019s the slogan of the Museum of Bad Art in Somerville, Massachusetts. It all started with a strange painting picked up off the curb on trash night in 1994, and the project has developed into a world-renowned collection with strict criteria and over 800 pieces of bad art.
You can learn more about the Museum of Bad Art\\xa0here.
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Films So Bad, They\\u2019re Actually Good
Guest: Jeffrey Sconce, Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University
\\u2018Badfilm\\u2019 is a genre long characterized by movies \\u201cso bad that they are actually good.\\u201d What makes a truly great badfilm?'