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...Cy Twombly’s Lepanto at Gagosian Gallery
...Cy Twombly’s latest painting series, “Lepanto,” is a twelve-panel suite of paintings created in the early months of 2001 for exhibition at the Venice Biennale, where he received the prized Leone d’Oro award. The series is principally a contemplation and revival of the legendary Lepanto battle of 1571 where a combined Spanish, Venetian and Papal armada fought and defeated the imposing fleet of the Ottoman Empire. The battle of Lepanto was celebrated widely as a decisive turning point in the struggle between East and West...
...strength of timely defense and the arm of five-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens, the Yankees were able to squeak by the D-Backs in Game...
...bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show. The irony is somewhat jarring, since nothing in the oh-so-serious first act prepares us for it. Still, it achieves the purpose of giving us an attitude toward the tragic denouement, apart from sheer depression, which...
...bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show. The irony is somewhat jarring, since nothing in the oh-so-serious first act prepares us for it. Still, it achieves the purpose of giving us an attitude toward the tragic denouement, apart from sheer depression, which...