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 ...

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.

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 Menil Collection's Cy Twombly Gallery is one of few museums in the world with permanent installations dedicated to the work of a single artist. Twombly, who was from Virginia, spent most of his ...

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Like most of the artist's output, the paintings, sculpture and works on paper in this exhibition are hard to categorize but easy to love. Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1971; oil-based house paint and wax ...

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“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 ...

Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring scribbles, graffiti and references to ancient empires fetched millions at auction, died Tuesday. He was 83. Twombly, who ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

It’s difficult to make a calibrated and semi-nuanced case in favor of a prominent artist who’s just died. Opinions at that moment -- and we have one here with the passing of Cy Twombly-- tend to fall ...