Vitamin Daily

With cooler days setting in we’re in need of indoor artistic pursuits.

Rouge Cabaret: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix is an electrifying new exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts featuring 220 paintings, watercolors and prints by the controversial German painter. Called a degenerate by some of his contemporaries, his striking (and sometimes unsettling) works capture the disconsolate mood in Europe between the two World Wars.  Most powerful are his portraits of artists and bohemians such as a 1927 oil on wood image of a cat-like woman reclining on leopard skin.

In we go.

Tickets $15; September 24 to January 2, 2011, Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, 1380 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, 514-285-2000, www.mmfa.qc.ca