An exhibition celebrating James Ensor's art prompts the author to examine the populist sympathies and anti-authoritarian passions that impelled these famously idiosyncratic works.
A little over 100 years after he painted the work for which he is best known, Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888), the Belgian artist James Ensor has returned triumphantly to Brussels. A retrospective organized by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts to mark the 50th anniversary of the artist's death, ...