Cy Twombly: Radically Retro

Cy Twombly is the man who went backward. In 1957, when New York City had plainly overtaken Paris as the art world's center of gravity, Twombly, who was not yet 30, left Manhattan to settle for good in Italy. Even before that his art had been looking back in time to a lost classical world. His lifelong problem would be how to summon the past in a language that was absolutely of the here and now. He would solve that problem in some spectacular ways.

So if nostalgia is the sentiment at the heart of "Cy Twombly: Cycles...