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Jewish museum in Austria exhibits anti-Semitic objects to provoke debate. HOHENEMS, Austria- The exhibit in the basement of the Jewish museum has the feel of a cozy antique shop or an old-fashioned apartment. But a closer look at the paintings, paperweights, pipes and other knickknacks reveals something chilling: They are all anti-Semitic, featuring large, crooked noses and other unflattering caricatures of Jews. Curator Hanno Loewy went for the comfortable, homey look with a purpose...full story

Shopping Christmas at two London galleries

Acid Drops & Sugar Candy is a sweet and sour response to Christmas. Each of the 45 participating artists has made twin works that are split between two galleries, although it’s difficult to tell the nice from the nasty. At Transition the work is arranged in a frieze, while Fosterart have gone for the salon style...full article

"At the same time somewhere else... Melik Ohanian, Pia Rönicke, Sean Snyder"
2005-12-17 until 2006-02-19
Fruitmarket Gallery
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Fruit market Gallery’s Christmas exhibition brings together work by Melik Ohanian, Pia Rönicke, and Sean Snyder. The methodology used by these three artists has much in common, from their inclusion of elements of their working process in the presentation of the finished work, to their persistent questioning of the distinction between factual and fictional information in the telling of a story...full article

"Brassai: The Photographer of the Night"
2005-12-17 until 2006-03-19
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebaek, Denmark
Brassaï (1899-1984) is one of the most influential photographers of 20th-century Europe, and has been a great inspiration to many subsequent photographers. Now, for the first time in Denmark, Louisiana is showing a comprehensive presentation of his works with 200 photographs and a selection of his drawings and sculptures...full article

"Gauguin and Impressionism"
2005-12-18 until 2003-03-26
Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, TX, USA

This winter the Kimbell Art Museum presents Gauguin and Impressionism, the first-ever comprehensive survey of Paul Gauguin’s early career.  The exhibition will be on view at the Kimbell—its only American venue—from December 18, 2005, to March 26, 2006. All of the great French artists normally known as Post-Impressionists exhibited with the Impressionists, but the involvement of Cézanne and Seurat in the movement was slight compared to that of Gauguin. He contributed to five of the eight Impressionist exhibitions—more than either Renoir or Sisley—and was the most active artist-collector of Impressionist paintings after Caillebotte.  Gauguin and Impressionism demonstrates both that he was an Impressionist and that he was a brilliant and highly original one. ...full article

"War: the Prints of Otto Dix"
2005-12-17 until 2006-04-30
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra, AC, AU Australia

War: the prints of Otto Dix opens at the National Gallery of Australia on Saturday 17 December. Der Kreig [War] 1924 is a series of 51 etched prints that will be showcased in the exhibition, documenting Otto Dix’s experiences in the First World War. It has been described as one of the most powerful and the most unpleasant anti-war statements in modern art. ..full article