Lost artworks exert an almost ghostly power over the art historical imagination. One need only call to mind the dramatically empty frames hanging in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or the ...
The Art Institute of Chicago has refused to turn over a drawing by Egon Schiele to New York investigators, according to a document filed in a New York Supreme Court this week. In the robust 132-page ...
This shrewd and diverting French drama takes as its inspiration the rediscovery of a long-lost Egon Schiele masterwork. By Manohla Dargis A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s ...
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Good artworks can rarely be deciphered easily and those that can are generally less fascinating than complex and meaningful ones. This applies to Egon Schiele’s short but highly productive artistic ...
Egon Schiele, “Portrait of Herbert Reiner (Reiner Boy)” (1910), oil on canvas, 101 × 101.5 cm (© Belvedere, Vienna, all images courtesy the Belvedere Museum unless otherwise noted) VIENNA — Two ...
For an artist now best known for his desiccated portraits, “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes,” on view at New York’s Neue Galerie through mid-January, adds some necessary water to the flower pot. 1 ...
Egon Schiele, “Eduard Kosmack” (1910), black chalk, watercolor, and opaque white, Albertina (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) VIENNA — The Albertina’s astounding retrospective of Egon ...
Someone’s bound to make a movie about Egon Schiele. I’m surprised that none of the current crop of young actors with surly expressions and aspirations to be taken seriously as artists has staked a ...