Ira Joel Haber. Jean Dubuffet. Soul Of The Underground. Moma

This is a small but meaty show of this great artist's works on paper with the spotlight on his wonderful imaginative prints. There are also a few paintings bulky and beautiful with unlikely materials, a couple of sculptures, drawings and books. I love this artist. He was for me when a kid, and a teen a lighthouse and a voice giving me the permission to do anything I wanted, and don't give a shit what anyone thinks. There's very little color in the show, but his materials of sand, gravel, dirt and whatnot have a muted color scheme like the earth and mushed up garbage that most pass by without giving what they are seeing a second thought. He saw and thought and invented. It took him a long time to find his passion, it was start and stop, off and on until the early and mid 40’s when his love for the untrained, the self taught, the art brut became a big influence on his art. Take this show in, slowly. It’s in the drawing and print galleries until April so there is plenty of time to see it.