Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg

 Brutal Aesthetics explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.

Paw in print

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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April 2026

Inside the new ES and SEAS complex; kudos for austerity; jazz at Princeton.