Anthony Lane: “9” and “District 9.” Sep 7, 2009
Peter Schjeldahl analyzes the paintings of James Ensor. The New Yorker Festival returns, and more events involving New Yorker contributors. (New Yorker)
Missing Woman Sep 7, 2009
The life of Amelia Earhart : The New Yorker. Post, TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), The Earhart Project, Nikumaroro, Islands, Carl Allen, Herald Tribune, Eugene Vidal, Bureau of Air Commerce, (Pres. (New Yorker)
Wilder Women Aug 3, 2009
Rose and Laura Wilder and the Little House stories : The New Yorker. Bulletin, Fremont Older, John Miller, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder , Biographies, Pamela Smith Hill, Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Life , Pioneers, Saturday Evening Post, (Pres. (New Yorker)
Skull and Bones: The Haunted Art of James Ensor Jul 19, 2009
The Belgian painter James Ensor is the outsider artist who made it in. An isolated and splenetic man, contemptuous of both authority and the human herd, always feuding with the world and licking his wounds, he ended up all the same with money, royal honors and a secure if peculiar foothold in art history. (Time.com)
Athens makes Pericles proud Jul 12, 2009
James Ensor : Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the Belgian painter s birth. The Museum of Modern Art has mounted an extensive retrospective (it includes some 120 works) honoring this often-overlooked figure whose often grotesque representational canvases make him a key link between late Romantic art and the turbulence of 20th-century Expressionism. (Boston Globe)
Read Indepth Article Jul 2, 2009
James Ensor - Museum of Modern Art - absolutearts ... "James Ensor" 2009-06-28 until 2009-09-21 New York, NY, USA ... The Museum of Modern Art presents James Ensor - the first exhibition at an American institution to feature the full range of his media in over 30 yearsfrom June 28 through September 21, 2009. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future? Jul 1, 2009
Peter Schjeldahl analyzes the paintings of James Ensor. Raffi Khatchadourian discusses murder in Iraq. (New Yorker)
Peter Schjeldahl: James Ensor’s irreality. Jun 29, 2009
James Ensor retrospective at MOMA: The Art World: The New Yorker ... James Ensor s irreality ... ABSTRACT: THE ART WORLD review of the James Ensor retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. (New Yorker)
Mask, And You Shall Perceive Jun 25, 2009
JAMES ENSOR'S DARK ART AT MOMA ... Few have gotten more mileage from it than James Ensor ... So we learn at "James Ensor," opening Sunday at MoMA -- the first American museum to acquire an Ensor, two years after his death. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
CAN'T STAND THE HEAT? TRY SOME SUMMER ART May 15, 2009
James Ensor at the Museum of Modern Art. An important precursor to Modern art, the Belgian painter James Ensor (1860-1949) was sort of the George Romero of Post-Impressionism. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Bull for a night Mar 1, 2009
After the hammer came down on paintings by Edouard Vuillard, James Ensor, and Giorgio De Chirico, representatives from the Musee D Orsay, in the first two instances, and the Centre Pompidou, in the third, hollered Preemption. which the crowd greeted with polite applause. (The Economist)
Christie's YSL Auction Raises $477 Million; Chinese Bronzes Sell in Paris Feb 26, 2009
New artist records were set for , , , and James Ensor. Seventy percent of the buyers at that session were European, 30 percent from the U.S., and one individual from Asia; Russian collectors bought at least one of the most-expensive lots, Christies said. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Saint Laurent Art Sets Records Feb 25, 2009
Although he is sanguine about the market, the dealer, based in Monte Carlo, Monaco, was staggered by Monday's sale, which also netted records for (two of the Dutchman's paintings sold for eight-digit figures), Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee and James Ensor. "It was the most amazing auction I've ever seen," Nahmad said on the main floor just after the last lot sold. (Time.com)
