Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper.PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE Some people think Cy Twombly's paintings are little more than glorified drawings. They'll be able to check whether there's a difference of more than support and scale by visiting this exhibition of works on paper, organized by Michael Semff and Julie Sylvester (and on view at the Hermitage Hermitage, cottage, near Montmorency, FranceHermitage, in France: see Montmorency, France.Hermitage, museum, St. Petersburg, RussiaHermitage (ĕr'mētäzh`), museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the world's foremost houses of art. until September 21), in honor of the artist's seventy-fifth birthday. The eighty-six items on view, covering half a century of work, should serve both to chart Twombly's development as an artist and to isolate the specific nature of his draftsmanship, in which paper itself, as Roland Barthes once said, becomes the object of desire. Oct. 8-Nov. 30; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Jan. 2004-Mar. 2004; Serpentine serpentine (sûr`pəntēn, –tīn), hydrous silicate of magnesium. It occurs in crystalline form only as a pseudomorph having the form of some other mineral and is generally found in the form of chrysotile (silky fibers) and antigorite and lizardite (which are both tabular). Gallery, London, Apr. 2004-June 2004.--BS |
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