The New York Times Magazine's viral 'Bad Art Friend' essay and the group chat drama between Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson is too real ...

In 2021, The New York Times Magazine published a nearly-10,000-word feature titled “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” The piece was about a woman named Dawn Dorland, who donated a kidney to a ...

If you don’t have many friends who make art you respect, it might be worth asking why. Sometimes we have friends we consider to be bad artists because we don’t feel confident about our work.

Billed as art that's "too bad to be ignored," the museum is a non-profit organization with an ever-growing collection and an expanding footprint. What was once a gag between two friends turned ...

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Jen Craig’s new novel Wall confirms she is an ambitious writer in the best sense: she wants to convey deeply conflicted and even contradictory states of being in the world.

Watt Smith fleshes out her "deeply researched" account with descriptions of how she fell out with her best friend Sofia, said Kitty Drake in The Guardian. The cause, she admits, was largely her ...

The name of the museum is as unique as its contents. The Museum of Bad Art in Boston (MOBA) is now celebrating a big anniversary, and the staff there wants you to come see what its exhibits are ...

For this Bengaluru community, art is not just a creative outlet; it’s a bridge to friendship.

Lina H. R. Cho ’23 is a Comparative Literature concentrator in Dunster House. Her column “Bad Art” typically appears on alternate Mondays. I’ve been in a really good place with my reading ...

She’d seen Bad Art Night on Facebook and invited several friends. The event appealed to her because she’d been exploring the benefits of somatic art therapy, which helps people process ...