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Guaranteed Human.

And we're back with our American stories.

And up next, a story about an art museum in Somerville, Massachusetts.

But this art museum has a bit of a twist.

Here's Louise Riley Sacco with this story.

I'm Louise Riley Sacco, and I'm the permanent acting interim executive director of the Museum of Bad Art.

In 1993, Scott Wilson, an arts and antiques dealer, noticed a framed

picture leaning against a trash barrel waiting for the collection truck to come by. The painting

is a woman in a field of flowers, and the wind seems to be blowing the flowers one way in her clothes a different

direction. She's either sitting in a chair or standing. That's unclear. And the sky is yellow. It is a

very compelling painting, but it's puzzling. Scott really liked the frame, and he was planning to throw out the painting,

clean up the frame and sell it.

But his friends, Jerry Riley and Mari Jackson,

told him you can't throw that out.

It's so bad, it's good.

And they hung it in their house.

And that was the start of this whole thing.

After that, Scott and other friends kept an eye out for really bad paintings in thrift stores,

yard sales, things like that.

And this collection kind of took on a life of its own.

Jerry and Mari had a party.

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