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...Showing works after 1880, including rooms devoted to the macabre, cynical paintings of James Ensor, they rebalance the appeal of the museum, best known for its grand gallery of Rubens....
...In the modern sections there are discoveries galore, from the unsettling art of Ostend-born James Ensor to the sensual portraits of women by Rik Wouters, who died in 1916 at the age of 33....
...So initially the museum didn’t even have a permanent collection....
...The 36-year-old previously worked at Invesco, T Rowe Price and Investec, before moving to River & Mercantile almost four years ago....
...I think it is really important not to be overly didactic and so give people the chance-- first of all, don't overestimate, but also don't underestimate the public....
...From the FT Archives of 1971 and a piece by James Ensor, motoring correspondent at the time: Today’s enthusiasm for communism non-ownership is in part being fuelled by a desire to be greener....
...Although it was painted when Ensor was only 30, Tuymans will close the show with it....
...Jo Ensor, global director of the UK-based Philanthropy Workshop, said the funds had allowed philanthropists to be “more nimble and experimental” in their charitable giving....
...Richard Ross, chairman of the UK’s Rosetrees Trust, which funds medical research, said: “I would dearly love more people to come forward and say we will put more money into research, but what I can’t offer...
...Any further analysis of giving must also take in the changing nature of philanthropy, said Jo Ensor, director of the Philanthropy Workshop. “Giving is much broader than just money,” she said....
...The business isn’t Veuve Clicquot. But it definitely has verve. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Chapel Down: kate.burgess@ft.com...
...“A lot of people, when they give, don’t think the way they would when making an investment . . . they don’t think in the same hard-headed way they would elsewhere....
...But Jo Ensor, director at TPW, says administration costs should not always be pushed to the absolute minimum....
...Perhaps McColl’s will prosper in the future but I certainly won’t be on board....
...BBA Aviation, Christie Group, Ensor, Lok n’ Store and UDG Healthcare did all rise (Christie shares doubled over the year), but PZ Cussons and Northbridge Industrial Services, although trading well during...
...People think it might be about not being able to go online for a few days – which doesn’t sound too bad. But it might mean the phone network wouldn’t work, either.”...
...No it doesn’t. Does the rebuttal conclusively prove that he’s not? No, it doesn’t either....
...They don’t want to be a Betamax equivalent in a world of VHS....
...Many artists associated with the style, such as Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, James Ensor and Gustav Klimt, made work that fed on their inner fears and fantasies....
...He didn’t ask who they were. “Better not to know.” He “was a classic member of that generation, modest and didn’t like to talk about the war. He said war was awful.”...
...I haven’t been to Foggy Furze lately but I suspect it is a bit light on internet cafés....
...They just won’t budge.” R3 claims that the problem of ransom payments could be alleviated by a change to the law....
...Memo: don’t sell good stock. Recent transactions have seen me adding to four existing holdings: Dairy Crest, Delcam, Interior Services Group and VP....
...People talk about Rubens, Ensor, the grotesque, but the roots are in Van Eyck – the most effective, powerful painter in the western hemisphere, because of his hardened form of realism....
...But Ensor didn’t give a hoot for where he was supposed to stand in the face-off between tradition and modernity....
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