6.16.10 - 3:00PM
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Cole Stryker

The Museum of Bad Art's Greatest Misses

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The Museum of Bad Art collects awful artwork collected at thrift shops and donated by collectors of kitsch. Since 1993, the MOBA has been the world's premier host of your mom's weird cross stitching and your dad's sculptures made out of corn cobs.

We've collected the best of the worst for you (of course, if you want to see the best of MOBA's animal art, we've done that too!).

Mama and Babe

Sarah Irani, 1995

How many generations after Jake Sully does it with Neytiri do you think it's going to take for the Na'vi to produce something like this portrait?

Red Figure With Braids

Carlos Rangel

This freakish little number is nearly four feet tall. When I was a kid I would have had nightmares about this thing extending indefinitely, wrapping around my body and choking me like a boa constrictor.

Dog

Unknown

He's walking in the air. He's floating through the moonlit sky. The people far below are creeped out.

Blue Mushroom Man

Matthew Johnson

This is the intellectual older brother of those shirts that you wore in middle school with an alien surrounded by glowing mushrooms that read, "Take me to your dealer."

"Drugs."

Worried Guy

Anonymous

This guy is all, "I don't do mornings."

Annie's Downstairs Secret

Kendall Moore

Is the secret that Annie's parents locked her in the basement until she turned into one of those feral children you see on TV?

Also, there are no fewer than three "Hurr Durr" expressions to be appreciated here.

Sad Baby

Anonymous

I once dated a girl who worked with autistic kids. One time, one of them smeared his feces all over the bathroom wall and my girlfriend had to clean it all up.

Heather Come Hither

Bianka

My face is an isosceles triangle. Your argument is invalid.

Hollywood Lips

Anonymous

Tori Spelling's head on a stick turned out to be a great way to ward off grave robbers.

~Gary Larson, 1994

Spewing Rubik's Cubes

K. Koch

Just when you finished your first Rubik's Cube, Jigsaw from Saw's lesbian aunt emerged from the lake to make you feel like you'd accomplished nothing.

He Was a Friend of Mine

Jack Owen

Ghost Dog and Blue Cat were best of friends in the mind of their owner. Pet owners love to imagine their collection of dumb animals to all be best friends, as though they'd be inviting each other over for tea parties if they were human.

Woman Riding Crustacean

Anonymous

I feel like "Riding the Crustacean" is some kind of icky innuendo that I'm not aware of and hope I'm never exposed to.

Bone Juggling Dog in Hula Skirt

Mari Newman

"And upon the sounding of the third trumpet, and the pouring of the third bowl of blood, a bone-juggling dog will appear from the east, laying waste to one third of the earth's population."

~The Book of Revelation

Drilling for Eggs

William F. Murphy

Boy, imagine what a mess we'd be in if we were drilling for eggs instead of oil right now! Imagine trying to clean up a yolk spill. LOL.