Last time I was at the Twombly Gallery in Houston, I struck up a conversation with a woman at the desk — her name, unfortunately, escapes me, but I remember she was very knowledgeable and played the piano — and she gave me a reading list, and this was at the top.
The reproductions are quite beautiful, but I found the writing pretty dry. My favorite story is this one about gallery owner Eleanor Ward:
In 1953 Mr. Rauschenberg, while working as a janitor at the gallery, showed his now-famous all-black and all-white paintings, to general critical disapproval. He shared his exhibition with Cy Twombly, whose graffiti-based drawings, selling for $50 each and now worth thousands of dollars, drew no takers, despite the efforts of Dorothy Miller, then a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, who urged friends to buy them as Christmas presents.
Ha!
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