Jean Dubuffet, born in 1901 in Le Havre, studied art briefly in 1918, but left the academy to pursue music, poetry, and winemaking. In 1942, Dubuffet returned to art with distinct ideas of his own. Strong color, directness, thick impasto—this is where he was going. Eventually he coined a term, art brut, for the quality he valued in art: expression unsullied by lofty ideals. This exhibition of Dubuffets comes entirely from holdings at the Guggenheim in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Works from the 1940s until Dubuffet’s death in 1985 focus on his celebration of the ordinary as well as his cultural critiques. —Elena Clavarino