It is audacious for a writer on art on the eve of his eightieth birthday to publish a volume of criticism called Bad Art. The subject, after all, is such a large and various one. It extends in so many ...

Aaron Paul, Dean Norris and others have taken pictures of themselves with Rick Fortson’s stirring portraits. By Aaron Couch Breaking Bad Drawings - H 2012 The stirring drawings have become fan letters ...

When the Bad Art Friend story came out I had been aware of it for a little while – I’d gone to school with the kidney donor – and I sensed it would be a big one. Still, I was thrown by the whale that ...

We start with a question: "What is bad art?"There are places where art-gone-wrong is actually celebrated.In Boston, you'll find something called the Museum of Bad Art, or MOBA, which is located at the ...

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