At the Louvre, Cy Twombly Dances on the Ceiling

Oh what a feeling, indeed. Cy Twombly has brought his transcendent abstraction and riffs on antiquity to the Louvre, where he is among a select trio of contemporary artists invited to create a permanent work for the museum (the first artists to do so since Georges Braque in the 1950s). Anselm Kiefer kicked off the initiative in 2007 with his multimedia installation in a history-soaked Napoleonic stairwell, and earlier this year, the museum unveiled François

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