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Sunday, May 15, 2005
This "ugly art" was never intended to be seen
BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - A museum in southwest France is exhibiting "raw" but often powerful art by the self-taught which was never intended for a public showing. The museum is so relaxed that visiting pupils sometimes take a picture back to their school to study it at leisure. "Here, visitors are totally free -- there's no dictatorship of conformism, no security guard beside each painting -- here you can touch the art," said organiser Pascal Rigeade. The museum, on the banks of the Garonne River in the Bordeaux suburb of Begles, will open its doors late at night this weekend, along with another 1,200 or so museums in Europe celebrating the continent's first "Night of the Museums." ...
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