USA: BOSTON: MUSEUM OF BAD ART
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It might not be the Louvre, but it certainly isn't the Art Barn.
An antiques dealer's find in a trash pile has grown into Boston's newest tourist attraction.
Lucy in the Field with Flowers. Three years ago Boston antiques dealer Scott Wilson found her in somebody's trash pile, and the Museum of Bad Art was born.
The collection is, for now, housed in his partner's basement, but soon it will move to larger digs at the nearby Montserrat College of Art.
The museum boasts 80 original paintings and a few sculptures - all from unconventional sources.
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Trash piles, a good chunk of them come from the trash, thrift stores, yard sales. We've been getting more and more things sent to us by the Friends of MOBA, which is a growing organization of people dedicated to celebrating bad art.
SUPER CAPTION: Scott Wilson, Curator, Museum of Bad Art
Friends of MOBA, a group of about 80 Boston residents, has been active in promoting the museum.
They put out a weekly newsletter on the Internet, and recently created a virtual museum on CD-Rom.
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We're doing a much better job of fulfilling our mission of bringing the worst of art to the widest of audiences. And so now what we're finding is that people around the country have been contacting us, donating paintings, and joining the Friends of MOBA. So we're very excited about the growth in the institution over the last month or two.
SUPER CAPTION: Jerry Reilly, Executive Director, Museum of Bad Art
And that can only mean worse art for the museum...
It's not difficult to find words to describe the collection.
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I've heard the word unforgettable used, terrible. I think each one is really bad in a different way, and they're unforgettable. They're remarkably bad, not simply bad, but remarkably bad, which is why the museum was started in the first place.
SUPER CAPTION: Ethan Berry, Associate Professor, Montserrat College of Art.
And for aspiring artists, maybe bad recognition is better than no recognition.
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On Edgartown:
Edgartown, town (township), seat of Dukes county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. The town comprises Chappaquiddick Island and the eastern tip of the island of Martha’s Vineyard. The oldest settlement on the island, Edgartown dates from 1642 and was incorporated in 1671 and named for Edgar, son of James II of England; the town had previously been called Nunnepog (Algonquian for “Fresh Pond”). In the 18th century Edgartown was the prosperous home port of many whaling vessels. Houses built by successful whalers and merchants line the town streets. Among the oldest buildings are Vincent House (1672) and the Thomas Cooke House (1766), now part of a historical museum. Edgartown depends greatly on summer tourists for revenue and has excellent beaches and provisions for yachting and other marine recreation. Within the township are the Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge, Felix Neck (a bird sanctuary), and part of Martha’s Vineyard State Forest. Martha’s Vineyard and Chappaquiddick Island are connected by ferry. In 1969 national attention was focused on Chappaquiddick after a car driven by Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy went over the side of an unmarked bridge there, and his passenger drowned. Area 27 square miles (70 square km). Pop. (2000) 3,779; (2010) 4,067.
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Documentary Reveals Lost Footage Of JFK Jr. Fighting With Wife
Saturday marks the 17th anniversary of John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s passing and a new documentary will shed light on the heir to Camelot the public did not see. The trailer for the upcoming Spike TV documentary, I Am JFK Jr., features his tight circle of close friends who knew all his secrets. It shows a confrontation between Kennedy and his wife Carolyn Bessette in a New York City park.
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John Fitzgerald Jack Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service. After the war, Kennedy represented the 11th congressional district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, he published his book entitled Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president. At age 43, he became the second-youngest man to serve as president (after Theodore Roosevelt), the youngest man to be elected as U.S. president as well as being the first (and only) Roman Catholic to occupy that office.
Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In April 1961, he authorized a failed joint-CIA attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He subsequently rejected Operation Northwoods plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered that Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps and supported the civil rights movement, but he was largely unsuccessful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.
On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the state crime, but he was never prosecuted due to his murder by Jack Ruby two days later; Ruby was sentenced to death and died while the sentence was on appeal in 1967. Pursuant to the Presidential Succession Act, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president later that day. Both the FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, but various groups challenged the findings of the Warren Report and believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights and the Revenue Acts of 1964. Kennedy continues to rank highly in historians' polls of U.S. presidents and with the general public. His average approval rating of 70% is the highest of any president in Gallup's history of systematically measuring job approval.
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00:01:57 2 Early Christianity
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Bermuda () is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 1,070 km (665 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; 1,236 km (768 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia; and 1,759 km (1,093 mi) north of Cuba. The capital city is Hamilton. Bermuda is self-governing, with its own constitution and its own government, which enacts local laws, while the United Kingdom retains responsibility for defence and foreign relations.
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Faith Ringgold - Chubb Fellow, delivers the spring 2018 Chubb Fellowship lecture “Anyone Can Fly” at 4:30pm on Thursday February 15th in the Yale University Art Gallery Auditorium. She discusses her incredible career as a visual artist, educator, Children’s book author, and Civil Rights activist spanning more than half a century.