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A bit of a mess
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An exhibition, ideally, should be the strongest possible display of an artist's work. That simple dictum, once put to me by a painter friend, seems obvious. But for various reasons - it doesn't always turn out like that. Sadly, the James Ensor exhibition, Theatre of Masks, at the Barbican is a demonstration of what can go wrong when the emphasis falls not on the strongest work, but far too often on the weakest.
Ensor (1860-1949) was a unique and fascinating talent, and his career proceeded in an accordingly unconventional fashion. Broadly speaking, he started off as a sombre realist. In ...
 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Fox refused to be prejudiced.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England)
; ...wrote an influential history of the Civil War. Edward Hyde, the 1st Earl of Clarendon, damned "Bromwicham" as "a town so generally...Fox was granted a colonel's commission by the Earl of Denbigh. This entitled him to raise a regiment...
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