Entertainment & Arts
Jean Dubuffet, the iconoclastic artist whose contentious sculptures dot a landscape across the Western world, is dead of emphysema at age 83.
May 16, 1985
Jean Dubuffet, one of France’s most controversial artists for more than four decades, died of heart failure, family sources said today.
May 15, 1985
“Bonne Mine (Looking Well),” a 1961 painting by French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), has been acquired by the San Diego Museum of Art and installed in the museum’s galleries of 20th-Century art, the museum announced Tuesday.
Jan. 4, 1989
World War II was a justifable battle against Fascist madness, but when it was over even the victorious Western European allies looked back on the carnage with revulsion.
May 19, 1985
Kirk Douglas Collection Sold: “Chasse Croise,” a painting of fantastic personages by Jean Dubuffet, sold for $2 million and ran away with an auction of 17 works from the collection of Kirk and Anne Douglas on Wednesday at Christie’s New York.
May 17, 1990
May 15, 2018
After a long, famous and infamous history, the rectangular-shaped Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume is starting a new life as a museum devoted exclusively to shows by contemporary artists.
July 10, 1991
Pierre Matisse, an art dealer whose renowned Manhattan gallery was the United States’ most distinguished repository for the works of such contemporary masters as Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Balthus, Jean Dubuffet and others, has died at age 89.
Aug. 14, 1989
Jacob Hashimoto’s two installations in the project room at Patricia Faure Gallery are literally breathtaking--and, in a marvelous way, breath-giving.
June 23, 2000
Two exhibitions of works by psychiatric patients explore the nature of mental illness and creative genius.
June 25, 2000