Click Here to Read:  Artists Build a Holocaust Memorial Beside Far-Right German Politician’s House: In response to comments made by a senior member of the Alternative for Germany party about Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, the artist collective Center for Political Beauty built a replica of it in the politician’s hometown by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic website on December 26, 2017.

Berlin Holocaust by Museum Mary-Grace Blaha Schexnayder. Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.

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Click Here to Read:  Vienna finally gets its own Freud statue, via Swiss Cottage on the etcetera website on December 21, 2017.

Statue of Sigmund Freud in London, with the Tavistock Clinic in the background.Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read:  Best of 2017: Our Top 20 Exhibitions Around the World: We traveled around the world this year to look for some of the best art exhibitions and found some gems in Germany, South Africa, Spain, UAE, UK, and beyond on the HyperAllergic website on December 22, 2017.

Front view of Winter Palace, where Russian Tsars used to spend their winter months hiding the bitter cold. Sasha Petite from Singapore. Public Domain Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read:   Reflections on the Bodleian’s Treasures — and a few others by Paul Levy on his Plain English website on December 21, 2017.

Click Here to Read: How a Jewish Storytelling Tradition Is Reflected in Contemporary Art: With varying degrees of success, a show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco looks at how storytelling can help us access spirituality Clayton Schuster on the HyperAllergic on December 10, 2017,

Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA, USA

Click Here to Read:   For Its Centennial, the Allen Museum Focuses on the Important Roles Women Played in Its History: The Allen Memorial Art Museum clearly understands the importance of the issue of gender equity by Diana Sette on the HyperAllergic website on Decedmber 13, 2017.

Allen Memorial Art Museum. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read:  Cancellation of exhibition about Jewish art collector in Germany raises issue of Nazi-confiscated art By Sibylle Fuchs on the World Socialist Web Site on December 13, 2017.

Max Stern Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read:  Chaïm Soutine: the Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker by Lucy Scholes on the New York Review of Books Daily website on December 7, 2017.

Chaïm Soutine (1893 – 1943), “Le Petit Pâtissier”, huile sur toile, 73 x 54 cm, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read: “Tortured” Artists Are Actually Less Creative, Study Suggests: In a new paper, two economists argue that artists’ creative output suffers in the periods immediately following the death of a loved one by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic Website on December 5, 2017.

1889 self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, the unwitting poster boy for “tortured artists” everywhere (Public Domain image)