Does the context around the individual make ‘There is a Light That Never Goes Out’ a bad song ... I am not saying “good art excuses an artist’s wrongdoing.” In my opinion, individuals ...

After a brief hiatus, Preble Arts’ iconic annual fundraiser, “Bad Art, Good Folk,” is making its long-awaited return in 2025 ...

even though they often make me feel very bad. Art, whether it takes the form of film, painting, sculpture or none of the above, is a personal reflection of the artist. As all of us know, not every ...

I know art is subjective, but this is ridiculous.

At The WBUR Festival, NPR Tiny Desk winner and local singer-songwriter Alisa Amador and former Boston Poet Laureate Porsha ...

Other artists—Woody Allen ... in the May 2023 print edition with the headline “It’s Okay to Like Good Art by Bad People.” When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive ...

What is good art? What is bad art? So many existential questions ... It might be an experiment, by an artist who knows what they’re doing, but it didn’t work out. But then there’s this ...

was found in the artist’s vault after his death Photo: Jeff McLane, courtesy the Kinkade Family Foundation While the question of what is “good” and “bad” art lingers in the background of ...

a similar and also minor art form. But in the mid-19th century, a host of American journeymen-artists practiced genre painting with extraordinary success. The rising middle class of the period ...