Iranian Holocaust Exhibit Unpopular

This article at the Independent indicates that the Holocaust Contest cartoon exhibit in Iran has been something of a flop, drawing a few hundred guests a day the first few days before settling into a 50 visitors a day pattern. The showing was based on a contest designed to show the West as hypocritical, with the idea that Western nations would oppose the contest and the resulting exhibit with a much greater passion than they brought against the depictions of the Prophet Muhammed in the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten.

The article does manage to pick up on the weird political slide the contest and exhibition suffered, as many artists used the opportunity to make political points like comparing Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to Hitler's treatment of Jews and gypsies. Iran currently enjoys some extra scrutiny in this area because its president questioned the veracity of the Holocaust -- an event that further changed the context in which the exhibit takes place.
 
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