Serenade
Cy Twombly, 1928-2011
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

¶ On our next visit to the Museum, we’re going to spend a few minutes with the Cy Twombly paintings — assuming that they’re still hanging in the Lila Acheson Wallace galleries. Twombly, who died at Rome, claimed a kinship with Poussin that we have a lot of trouble making out, but no matter; we like his big, dreamy canvases best of all the midcentury splashers’.