Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Immortality is what makes a god a god. Launching a thunderbolt is an attention-getter, while the transformation of a human ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

"For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary.)" Cy Twombly. The work on view presents key examples of these artists' unique approach to painting and sculpture with the ...

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 ...

When he returned to his hometown of Lexington, Virginia, the artist Cy Twombly could often be found people-watching while perched on a bench on the grounds of the Virginia Military Institute. “He’d ...

Exhibitions at the Getty Center and Gagosian focus on his last decade and his love of ancient cultures, and show a lighter side of the challenging painter. By Walker Mimms At Christie’s sale for ...

Immortality is what makes a god a god. Launching a thunderbolt is an attention-getter, while the transformation of a human projection into an animal avatar can be disconcerting. Feeding a multitude ...

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer, whose work is associated with Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Minimalism. Born in Lexington, Virginia, he attended the ...

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 ...