Nigerian Compass Moves to Placate EFCC over Case of Economic Sabotage

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Destroys 8,950 copies of ‘bad press’ to appease Waziri

The management of Western Publishing Company Limited, publishers of the Nigerian Compass and The Westerner, has embarked on moves to placate if not compromise, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the case of corruption and economic sabotage brought against it at the commission by a former Editor of its Sunday title, Mr. Dotun Oladipo.

The company on Wednesday destroyed 8,950 copies of the pullout of its Thursday edition that contained damaging and uncomplimentary reports on the Chairperson of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri.

It was learnt that the story, an interview with the President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Mr. Olasupo Ojo, criticized Waziri’s leadership of the EFCC, describing the anti-graft agency as having become corrupt under Waziri.

In the interview, meant to have been published in the Law Personality column of Compass Law on Thursday, August 25, 2011, the rights activist had said among other things that, “Mrs. Waziri can never deliver anything positive in EFCC; I have told her on several occasions; I have challenged her to come and confront me in a debate – a public debate – and I will unmask her. She is not competent to be at the helms of affair of the EFCC; I think we should just stop deceiving Nigerians. EFCC is dead, only a change of guard will revive it.”

In the two-page interview conducted by Olugbenga Soyele, the CDHR chief added: “The woman is no longer worthy of that office; if she has credibility she should resign. I am telling her to resign and go back to retirement….”

The interview, scheduled for publication in the pullout pages of the newspaper was on Pages 14 and 18.

However, after the printing of the 8,950 copies of the pullout was concluded in the wee hours of Wednesday, the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Compass, Mr. Sina Kawonise, spotted what he considered an opportunity to appease Waziri.

Kawonise stopped press and ordered the destruction of the 8,950 copies of the newspaper, filling the pages with other materials.

First thing at dawn, he was on the first flight to Abuja to show Waziri what he had done for her, hoping to leverage on it for a soft landing in the case of corruption and economic sabotage brought against the company by Oladipo.

Unfortunately, Kawonise, an active politician and immediate past Commissioner for Information in Ogun was not in luck, as his dubious scheme was flushed down the drain at the Commission. He was not even allowed to see Waziri in person.

EFCC sources however indicated that the action has further primed the Commission to continue to attend to the case brought against the company.

It would be recalled that in the letter of complaint sent to Waziri by Oladipo on July 1, 2011, entitled ACTS OF ECONOMIC SABOTAGE BY WESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED, he wrote: “I wish to bring to your notice the failure of Western Publishing Company to remit the pension fund of its staff, which it has been deducting since February 2008, including mine, and the withholding of the cooperative contributions of staff members, amounting to about N7 million. I joined the company on February 8, 2008 as the Editorial Page Editor. So also has the company not remitted my Pay As You Earn (PAYE).

“The company, publishers of the Nigerian Compass and The Westerner, has not remitted a kobo of the money it has been deducting from my salary for pension since February 2008 when I was employed. So also has it not fulfilled its own part of the bargain that requires it to add its own share to the pension fund.

“As for the cooperative fund, the company has been deducting from source the contribution of members of the Western Publishing Company Limited Cooperative Society. But it has failed, despite several meetings with the management, to remit the money to the society. Rather, elected officials of the society have not only been intimidated but victimised for demanding what rightfully belongs to members. My financial contribution to the society stands at N730,000:00 only. The company at present owes the society about N7 million.

“On the PAYE, I discovered that the company had not been remitting it when I attempted collecting my tax certificate. No staff of the company has a tax certificate. And this is because the company has not remitted anyone’s PAYE.

“My plea ma is for the commission to help investigate this gross act of economic sabotage and recover the money from the company, including the interests that would have accrued on both the pension fund and the cooperative contributions.”

True to type however, Kawonise, it was learnt has been using the opportunity of the several trips to the Commission to milk the company dry.

Sources within the Western Publishing Company Limited said Kawonise, since assumption of duty, has embarked on a spending spree.

For every trip he undertakes to Abuja to attend to EFCC summons, even when he does not spend the night there, he collects N300,000, while 80 percent of the company’s outstation correspondents have not been paid for the past one year.

Workers at the headquarters also have arrears of unpaid salaries and allowances while Sina Kawonise junkets with company fund.

A source in the company said: “It is now an everyday thing. The man (Kawonise) collects money as he likes and he does not even bother to retire same. Everyone here is tired and frustrated. And this is in the face of unpaid salaries, which has risen in excess five months. In fact, he recently collected N500,000 from the company for the purchase of a new engine for his personal car, a Toyota Camry, which he said he wants to use as official car.”

According to another source, the new management of the company has since converted it to a ‘market place’ for corruption of all kinds.

Said he, “You do not need to search too deep, just scratch a little and you watch the worms crawl out. It’s that bad”

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MASSOB Leader, 280 others remanded in prison

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Information available to 247ureports.com indicates that the leader of MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazurike has been remanded in prison along with 280 members of MASSOB who were arrested yesterday [August 24, 2011] at the award event in Enugu. They were charged for treason at an Enugu State Magistrate court on Thursday August 25, 2011. Bail was denied and the case was postponed indefinitely [Sine die]. In particular, they were charged with planning to overthrow the South East governors of Nigeria on August 24, 2011 under the guise of attending an award event. This is according to State Security Service [SSS] report receivedby 247ureports.com. The court session began 11am and ended 2pm. The rowdy court session was held outside at the car park of the court house because the court did not contain the over 300 people that had showed up to court. The court session was presided over by Dennis Ekoh who is a former magistrate and the current registrar at the Enugu high court. He was borrowed from the Enugu High Court for this hearing. According to eyewitness report, the borrowed magistrate, Dennis Ekoh, was said to already be signing the reprimand order before the court began hearing at 11am. He was said to be penning his signature on the order in the open court before the accused could present their arguements for bail. The eyewitness added that a fight was on the verge of erupting between the defence lawyers and the prosecuting lawyers who came with the police officers. The borrowed Majistrate, in refusing to grant bail, indicated that he is refusing to grant bail because the Magistrate Court has no jurisdiction to decide on bail matters in cases concerning treason. He then remanded the 281 MASSOB members to prison. Highly credible sources indicate that the soiled relationship between the Governor Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi and the MASSOB leader which dates back to the period when Gov Peter Obi, in 2004/5, ordered for the Nigerian militay to “shoot at sight” all suspected MASSOB membersmay have precipitated the August 24, 2011 arrest. Gov Peter Obi’s order was not received well by the MASSOB leader who was incarcerated at the time the statement was made. But the relationship between the two did not completely sour till the two attended the burial of Ojukwu [Ikemba]’s relative in Enugu last year. And Gov Peter Obi who was not with his security men closeby, found himself manhandled by the MASSOB members in revenge for the “shoot at sight” order handed to the Nigerian Army. It became an embarrassing incident for the governor of Anambra State. The source who spoke to our correspondent indicated that it was the same organizer of the Igbo Youth Movement event that scuttled the Concorde Hotel meeting of Igbo leaders during the run up to the Presidential election. He is said to be the one that petitioned the police that the Igbo leaders [Dr. Alex Ekwueme and company] were coming to Imo State to plot against the country. Reacting, the then Ikedi Ohakim promptly reacted to order the police to lockup the Hotel. stay tuned

Onyeabor Obi, PDP BOT Chieftain, Emeakayi Lament Rot in Anambra PDP

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A founding member and topflight Board of Trustees (BOT) chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Onyeabor Obi has lamented over the steady dwindling of political fortunes of the party in Anambra state since 2003.

At the same time at another rally at the Udoka Housing Estate Office of the party by the Counsellorship and Council Chairmanship candidates of the party presided over by the state chairman, Chief Ken Emeakayi the members resolved to follow-up their aspiration and the noble ideals of the party’s founding fathers, weeding out every rotten apple in their midst.

The First Republic Senator and the pioneer legal adviser and counsel to the PDP in whose chambers in Lagos the first draft proposal for what is today known as PDP was put together told the Guardian he was earlier approached by both Emeakayi executive and the zonal chairman, Chief Olisa Metuh to lead a reconciliation panel to unify all divergent opinions in the party in the state. He appreciated the zeal and drive of both men but disclosed he initially declined; pointing out it was only if permitted by Dr Alex Ekwueme.

He said it was after that, and followed by a formal letter from the acting National Secretary of the party that he accepted to mediate. That he was merely serving the National Headquarters of the party, not Metuh or Emeakayi.

But contrary to the stand taken at the meeting of council election candidates that the party’s list of contestants which was vide an open transparent primaries since 2002 remain sacrosanct, Senator Obi said his panel has not taken any stand on it yet. But that they would consider it critically with a view to presenting an acceptable and commendable copy.

But while calling for the removal of Metuh form the National executive of the party, the candidates urged him to tidy up the account records along with his uncle Chief Emma Nweze who has been indicted by two independent and external audit reports already. They bemoaned their fate since 2002 when they started spending money to see to the realization of their political aspiration.

They called for the sack of Metuh from PDP, “for anti-party activities, being that he has been working for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to ensure that PDP remained on its knees in the state”

To avoid any manipulation with the list of the candidates they have announced that a compendium of biodata of all of them would be published and circulated on the day they would be given the party flags. They also resolved to match on the Wadata Headquarters of the party, with copies of all the financial impropriety records and all their resolutions for their direct appreciation of the goings on in the state.

Meet Kate Middleton’s Go-To Designer ‘Daniella Helayel’

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Call it the Kate Effect. Ever since Kate Middleton wore that silk navy dress at the announcement of her engagement with Prince William, the label Issa and its designer Daniella Helayel have become as popular as the new Duchess herself.

The little-known brand of easy dresses in vivid colors and exuberant prints made the transition from insider-only label to international sensation overnight. Kate has worn Issa dresses on several occasions. Most recently, she wore a purple wrap silk dress  at the Canada Day celebration she and her husband attended in Ottawa. Kate’s sister Pippa has also been spotted in a floor-length Issa dress.

Here, I talk to Kate’s favorite designer, Daniella Helayel, on fashion, beauty rituals and the Kate Effect.

What do you think is the appeal of Kate Middleton’s style?

Daniella Helayel: Kate has a classic sense of style. It’s chic and effortlessly elegant. Her fashion choices are part of what makes her such an icon as a modern day princess. I think her style is so appealing because women all over the world can relate to her. She dresses for her body shape and as a result she always looks glamorous, appropriate, comfortable and confident in what she’s wearing. We can all learn a lot from her. Her style is one that will survive and she’ll look as fabulous next season as she has for the past 9 years.

She has had such a tremendous impact on your business. How is it like dealing with this heightened publicity?

DH: I have tried to be as accommodating as possible to everyone, but of course it’s been a big change with the huge demand for interviews and the spotlight so firmly on my brand.

But what is Issa all about? Who is the Issa customer?

DH: I take a lot of inspiration from my childhood in Brazil, surrounded by nature. I have tried to translate all the unexpected color combinations, natural shapes and the thrill of carnivals into my prints, fabrics and designs. I keep the Brazilian vibe in my mind when designing. Issa is all about effortless glamour and making women feel confident, comfortable and cool in their own skin and a great dress; all women should look and feel fantastic. Issa is for all.

How would you describe your own personal style?

DH: I have quite a timeless approach to fashion, I like looking back at what has been done before and seeing how I can update it. I believe it’s very important for women to understand their bodies and what works for them. Once we know that then we can have fun with fashion and the trends, which come and go while still looking and feeling our best. But I will say that you always need a pair of big Jackie O sunglasses in your bag, and a scarf is the most versatile, chic accessory; a silk one tied round your neck, hair, wrist or handbag.

You travel a lot between London, Brazil, New York, China and so many other places in between. How do you stay looking fresh and put together despite your hectic work schedule?

DH: I try not to allow life to become too hectic! I don’t work a regular 9 to 5 but I manage my time so I can still look after myself.

What is your skin care and fitness regime?

DH: The face peels and red light treatment with Dr. Frances Prenna Jones are my indulgence. She works wonders on my skin and has given me Formula 2006 to cleanse followed by Neo Strata renewal and hydrating creams or TNS recovery complex before bed. I’m also really looking after myself at the moment, I’m trying to eat super healthily and cut out all processed food. I also see my personal trainer most mornings during the week and we work out for an hour and a half, then I run for 45 minutes every morning.

What products are on your vanity table?

DH: Lancome Bi-Facial to cleanse, although I don’t wear makeup every day. There’s also L’Oreal Absolut Repair Shampoo followed by a Kerastase mask or nourishing oil. Sunscreen is so important, I never used to be very dedicated, but now use La Roche-Posay for my face and Clarins or Lancaster on my body. And Allure fragrance by Chanel

Is there a right and wrong way to wear Issa?

DH: Definitely not – Issa means freedom! Wear it however it makes you feel the best.

Meet Kate Middleton’s Go-To Designer ‘Daniella Helayel’

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Call it the Kate Effect. Ever since Kate Middleton wore that silk navy dress at the announcement of her engagement with Prince William, the label Issa and its designer Daniella Helayel have become as popular as the new Duchess herself.

The little-known brand of easy dresses in vivid colors and exuberant prints made the transition from insider-only label to international sensation overnight. Kate has worn Issa dresses on several occasions. Most recently, she wore a purple wrap silk dress  at the Canada Day celebration she and her husband attended in Ottawa. Kate’s sister Pippa has also been spotted in a floor-length Issa dress.

Here, I talk to Kate’s favorite designer, Daniella Helayel, on fashion, beauty rituals and the Kate Effect.

What do you think is the appeal of Kate Middleton’s style?

Daniella Helayel: Kate has a classic sense of style. It’s chic and effortlessly elegant. Her fashion choices are part of what makes her such an icon as a modern day princess. I think her style is so appealing because women all over the world can relate to her. She dresses for her body shape and as a result she always looks glamorous, appropriate, comfortable and confident in what she’s wearing. We can all learn a lot from her. Her style is one that will survive and she’ll look as fabulous next season as she has for the past 9 years.

She has had such a tremendous impact on your business. How is it like dealing with this heightened publicity?

DH: I have tried to be as accommodating as possible to everyone, but of course it’s been a big change with the huge demand for interviews and the spotlight so firmly on my brand.

But what is Issa all about? Who is the Issa customer?

DH: I take a lot of inspiration from my childhood in Brazil, surrounded by nature. I have tried to translate all the unexpected color combinations, natural shapes and the thrill of carnivals into my prints, fabrics and designs. I keep the Brazilian vibe in my mind when designing. Issa is all about effortless glamour and making women feel confident, comfortable and cool in their own skin and a great dress; all women should look and feel fantastic. Issa is for all.

How would you describe your own personal style?

DH: I have quite a timeless approach to fashion, I like looking back at what has been done before and seeing how I can update it. I believe it’s very important for women to understand their bodies and what works for them. Once we know that then we can have fun with fashion and the trends, which come and go while still looking and feeling our best. But I will say that you always need a pair of big Jackie O sunglasses in your bag, and a scarf is the most versatile, chic accessory; a silk one tied round your neck, hair, wrist or handbag.

You travel a lot between London, Brazil, New York, China and so many other places in between. How do you stay looking fresh and put together despite your hectic work schedule?

DH: I try not to allow life to become too hectic! I don’t work a regular 9 to 5 but I manage my time so I can still look after myself.

What is your skin care and fitness regime?

DH: The face peels and red light treatment with Dr. Frances Prenna Jones are my indulgence. She works wonders on my skin and has given me Formula 2006 to cleanse followed by Neo Strata renewal and hydrating creams or TNS recovery complex before bed. I’m also really looking after myself at the moment, I’m trying to eat super healthily and cut out all processed food. I also see my personal trainer most mornings during the week and we work out for an hour and a half, then I run for 45 minutes every morning.

What products are on your vanity table?

DH: Lancome Bi-Facial to cleanse, although I don’t wear makeup every day. There’s also L’Oreal Absolut Repair Shampoo followed by a Kerastase mask or nourishing oil. Sunscreen is so important, I never used to be very dedicated, but now use La Roche-Posay for my face and Clarins or Lancaster on my body. And Allure fragrance by Chanel

Is there a right and wrong way to wear Issa?

DH: Definitely not – Issa means freedom! Wear it however it makes you feel the best.

Inside Donald Trump’s New Jet

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Donald Trump has just unveiled his newly refurbished $100 million Boeing 757, an aircraft that once belonged to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and what an overhaul it was. In fact, the aircraft’s interiors are almost gold plated as gold can be found covering everything from the sinks and faucets down to the seat belt fixtures themselves.

Should you be flying with the Donald, you can expect to be seated in the aircraft’s wood paneled and suede ceiling covered passenger cabin. Seated here, you will be able to watch the latest episode of the Apprentice on a 52-inch plasma television screen that’s also preprogrammed with 1,000 movies or listen to music on the aircraft’s state-of-the-art music sound system. Moreover, you will know that you are in the Donald’s aircraft as his name and the family crest are etched just about everywhere. All told, Donald’s new aircraft can accommodate 43 passengers in the utmost comfort imaginable.

Meanwhile and for the Donald himself (along with his wife Melania), there is a private bedroom that includes a massive flat-screen television and even a console where electric shades covering the room’s windows can be controlled at the push of a button. There is also a huge closet for both Donald and Melania to share.

As for the Donald’s old aircraft, a 43 year old Boeing 727 half the size of his new aircraft, its been on sale for a mere $8 million since 2009.

Jay-Z brings 40/40 restaurant franchise to London

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(Reuters) – Rapper Jay-Z plans to bring his 40/40 restaurant and bar franchise to London next year in a deal which will team him up with England and Chelsea soccer player Ashley Cole.

The NVA Entertainment Group (NVA), which brokered the multi-million pound (dollar) deal, said that The 40/40 London will be the first project of a partnership between Jay-Z and Cole that will include a number of new ventures.

“London is one of the most vibrant and exciting cities in the world and the perfect location for our new venue,” Jay-Z said in an NVA statement emailed to Reuters.

“I’m excited about working with Ashley and NVA Entertainment Group on a range of new projects and The 40/40 London is going to be the hottest place in town.”

The management team will be appointing a top chef to deliver a modern American-themed menu for the restaurant/bar that will feature top DJ’s and A-list artists. A shortlist of three potential sites is now under consideration with a final decision on location expected in August, NVA said.

The 40/40 London will give first option on jobs to talented, long-term unemployed young people. Each month a percentage of profits from the project will go to local youth charities for music and sport projects in deprived communities.

“I am delighted to be working with Jay Z I have grown up listening to his music and now to be doing business with him is amazing and the projects we do will be delivering much needed funds back into sport and music on a local community level as well as helping talented young people get back to work,” Cole said in the statement.

Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice

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Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice

For years Heidi W. Durrow heard the refrain: editors wouldn’t publish her novel because readers couldn’t relate to a protagonist who was part black and part Danish. But when that novel, “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky,” was finally published last year (after about four dozen rejections, said Ms. Durrow, who is, of course, black and Danish), the coming-of-age story landed on best-seller lists.

Heidi Durrow and Fanshen Cox, the co-producers of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival

Today Ms. Durrow finds herself in the elite precincts of The New Yorker and National Public Radio — which a few weeks ago began the Summer Blend Book Club, featuring works about multiracial people.

And work by mixed-race artists is increasingly visible in museum exhibitions, in bookstores and online — raised to the spotlight by new census numbers that show a roughly 32 percent increase since 2000 in the number of Americans declaring multiracial identity, as well as by a biracial president, an explosion of blogs and Web sites about multiracialism, and the advent of critical mixed-race studies on college campuses.

“The national images of racially mixed people have dramatically changed just within the last few years, from ‘mulattoes’ as psychically divided, racially impure outcasts to being hip new millennials who attractively embody the resolution of America’s race problem,” said Michele Elam, an associate professor of English at Stanford University.

Both images, she said, are wrongheaded and reductive.

Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting

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Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting
Guangzhou Opera House Designed by Zaha Hadid

GUANGZHOU, China — It says something about the state of architecture today that the most alluring opera house built anywhere in the world in decades is in a generic new business district at the outer edge of this city, has no resident company and a second-rate program.

And because this is China, a country that is still undergoing cultural growing pains and whose architectural monuments are mostly being built by unskilled migrant labor, the opera’s construction was racked with problems and the quality of some of it is abysmal.

Still, if you’re an architecture lover willing to find your way to the building, you probably won’t care much. Designed by Zaha Hadid, the new Guangzhou Opera House is gorgeous to look at. It is also a magnificent example of how a single building can redeem a moribund urban environment. Its fluid forms — which have been compared to a cluster of rocks in a riverbed, their surfaces eroded by the water’s currents — give sudden focus to the energy around it so that you see the whole area with fresh eyes.

Cy Twombly, Idiosyncratic Painter, Dies at 83

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Cy Twombly, Idiosyncratic Painter, Dies at 83

In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that his work was “influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well.” The critic Robert Hughes called him “the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.”

Mr. Twombly’s decision to settle permanently in southern Italy in 1957 as the art world shifted decisively in the other direction, from Europe to New York, was only the most symbolic of his idiosyncrasies. He avoided publicity throughout his life and mostly ignored his critics, who questioned constantly whether his work deserved a place at the forefront of 20th-century abstraction, though he lived long enough to see it arrive there. It didn’t help that his paintings, because of their surface complexity and whirlwinds of tiny detail – scratches, erasures, drips, penciled fragments of Italian and classical verse amid scrawled phalluses and buttocks – lost much of their power in reproduction.

But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses: often literary ones like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke. He seemed to welcome the privacy that came with unpopularity.

“I had my freedom and that was nice,” he said in a rare interview, with Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, before a 2008 survey of his career at the Tate Modern.

The critical low point probably came after a 1964 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York that was widely panned. The artist and writer Donald Judd, who was hostile toward painting in general, was especially damning even so, calling the show a fiasco. “There are a few drips and splatters and an occasional pencil line,” he wrote in a review. “There isn’t anything to these paintings.”

But by the 1980s, with the rise of neo-Expressionism, a generation of younger artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat found inspiration in Mr. Twombly’s skittery bathroom-graffiti scrawl. Coupled with rising interest in European artists whose work shared unexpected ground with Mr. Twombly’s, like that of Joseph Beuys, the new-found attention brought him a kind of critical favor he had never enjoyed. And by the next decade he was highly sought after not only by European museums and collectors, who had discovered his work early on, but also by those back in his homeland who had not known what to make of him two decades before.

In 1989 the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened permanent rooms dedicated to his monumental 10-painting cycle, “Fifty Days at Iliam,” based on Alexander Pope’s translation of the “Iliad.” (Mr. Twombly said that he had purposely misspelled “Ilium,” a Latin name for Troy, with an “a,” to refer to Achilles.) That same year, Mr. Twombly’s work passed the million-dollar mark at auction. In 1995 the Menil Collection in Houston opened a new gallery dedicated to his work, designed by Renzo Piano after a plan by Mr. Twombly himself. Despite this growing acceptance, Mr. Varnedoe still felt it necessary to include an essay in the Modern’s newsletter at the time of the retrospective, titled “Your Kid Could Not Do This, and Other Reflections on Cy Twombly.”

In the only written statement that Mr. Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human. Each line he made, he said, was “the actual experience” of making the line, adding: “It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.” Years later he described this more plainly. “It’s more like I’m having an experience than making a picture.” The process stood in stark contrast to the detached, effete image that often clung to Mr. Twombly. After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state, it was as if the painting existed and he barely did anymore: “I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days.”

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