Cy Twombly, a giant of post-war American art, died at 83 on July 5, 2011. Along with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, he moved painting beyond the heroic domains of Abstract Expressionism. Where ...
‘Making Past Present’ explores how the American painter, who died in Rome, made art that connected the ancient world with the new. In 1952, 24-year-old Cy Twombly won a grant to study art in Rome with ...
Cy Twombly, 1959 (Camilla McGrath © Camilla and Earl McGrath Foundation, Inc.) Joshua Rivkin’s Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly is an account of the artist ...
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Mavericks have always made art history interesting. In any era, personal visions that run counter to the trends of the day risk ostracism and obscurity. Cy Twombly, who died in ...
Next month, Washington and Lee University will host a exhibition and presentation by Southern Virginia University professor Barbara Crawford, who worked with world-famous Lexington-based artist Cy ...
Upon encountering Cy Twombly’s monumental nine-part polyptych “Untitled” (1971), I thought about the dark, domineering monolith that appears early on in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space ...
The son of the late canonical giant Cy Twombly, Alessandro Twombly, is exhibiting an unjustly neglected show currently at Amanita gallery. His father, probably the most achingly sophisticated New York ...
“Cy Twombly” at Gagosian is a major presentation of an artist who can be difficult to grasp. The swanky gallery’s uptown Manhattan location on Madison Avenue devotes two floors to Twombly’s output ...
Over the course of two decades, Twombly played a major role in shaping the direction of the museum's famed conservation department. New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, seen from the High Line.
Cy Twombly Foundation to Open Museum and Education Center in New York Less than a year after his death, a foundation set up by Cy Twombly has bought a Beaux-Arts mansion on East 82nd Street in New ...
In the artist’s first major U.S. museum survey, she bonds with Cy Twombly through works on paper, films and photographs. By Robin Pogrebin Exhibitions at the Getty Center and Gagosian focus on his ...