Looks like an interesting art exhibit, in New York

“One of the more curious encounters in the history of #ModernArt took place in September 1945 at a psychiatric hospital in southern #France.

A pall of ash still hung over Europe when Jean #Dubuffet, a prosperous wine merchant-turned-painter, showed up at the hilltop village of Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole and met the asylum’s unconventional Catalan director, Francesc #Tosquelles.”

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Images from unquiet minds: the intersection of psychiatry and art

A show of ‘art brut’ at the American Folk Art Museum illustrates how a psychiatric hospital became an artistic incubator