The Museum of Defaced Art (MoDA) is an online catalogue of defaced artworks. We also aim to be a repository of information about individual incidents of defacement, collecting news reports, discussion of incidents in academic and popular literature, cultural references to defacements, and so forth. Our definition of defacement is deliberately broad, and includes cases where works were undamaged, completely or partially restored, unsuccessfully restored, deliberately removed or dismantled, incorporated into new works or entirely destroyed.

The project was started in prototype form on Tumblr in 2014 (see, e.g.) and then lay dormant for a number of years. Since then, at least one link shared in one of the original pieces has gone dead and was never archived by any archive service, making it effectively unretrievable. To guard against endemic link rot, external web pages linked from MoDA will be accompanied with Wayback Machine alternative links as well as, eventually, local mirrors. Audio, video, etc. will also be archived locally.

The information provided is mostly factual. The curator may venture an occasional opinion, but trusts the reader to discern the difference.

MoDA is made in Notepad with HTML and CSS.

MoDA is a tom dissonance joint.