Add Cy Twombly to the Schnabel list..........all rhetoric no emotional content........all I can do is to viscerally respond to an image then determine if it is "life enhancing". CT a phony. Of that generation, Rauschenburg in the interstices between real and commercial and Jasper Johns right on the money.

Mary Boone and those dealers in the 80s, many Castelli's Bunch, made some good choices and many bad, strictly commercial ones. Dopey collectors dying for a place to put their surplus cash just went along with the program.

This morning I caught The Newtonian Moment at the extraordinary library here. Au fond there is really only science. I felt once again the intoxication of history, notably Western European Modern History, that was so powerful in my 20s and 30s.

The UBS ads featuring artists in the collection now on view at MoMA; the Clemente "Perseverance" is particularly awful -- poorly drawn, meaningless botches of paint...........no structure absolutely no meaning. What a con job.