When we look at abstract art, we tend to see in it a spontaneous investigation of a self-made universe untethered from the past. We decipher the works by the emotion they produce, the feelings they ...
The late Cy Twombly will be forever remembered as a legend among modern artists, celebrated for the expressiveness and poetic allusions of his painting. But at Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill location in ...
The last great masterpieces of abstract expressionism have descended on Mayfair – but this exhibition feels too market-led to let such colossal works shine You can’t fault art dealer Larry Gagosian’s ...
ROME – 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 ...
American artist Cy Twombly died Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. Melissa Block speaks with Josef Helfenstein, the director of the Menil Collection in Houston, where much of Twombly's art is on display. The ...
Cy Twombly, one of the most admired and influential American painters of the past half century, died Tuesday at a Rome hospital, having suffered from cancer for several years. He was 83. Represented ...
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 ...
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.
The Cy Twombly Foundation has threatened the Musée du Louvre with legal action after the museum renovated a gallery that bears a ceiling painted by the US artist, according to the French newspaper Le ...
Cy Twombly, “School of Athens” (1961), oil, oil-based house paint, colored pencil and lead pencil on canvas, 190.3 x 200.5 cm (© Robert Bayer, Bildpunkt AG, Munchenstein) PARIS — With a sloppy style ...
“We thought of each other as kindred spirits,” says Mann, who recounts how the two often took walks, went for long rides in her old BMW (“Cy loved that car because it was like a luxury boat, and he ...
In November, one of Cy Twombly’s “blackboard” paintings will go up for sale at Christie’s and may set a new record for the artist at auction. Created in 1970, the painting, Untitled, made of white wax ...