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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A painting from Cy Twombly’s famous Bacchus series is expected to lead Phillips’ upcoming auction with an estimated price of $35 to 45m USD. Created in 2005, Twombly’s Untitled is swathed with ...

Cy Twombly, a giant of post-war American Art, died today at 83. Along with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, he moved painting beyond the heroic domains of Abstract Expressionism. Where his ...

Cy Twombly’s looping lines, furious scribbles, and abstract doodles reveal less about the intention of the American postwar artist than the relentless energy with which he painted. His often oblique ...

Tacita Dean carries a small piece of ordinary classroom white chalk around in her repair kit. It's hard to imagine that she creates somewhat daunting natural disaster scenes across a 12-foot by ...

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 ...

Joshua Rivkin’s Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly is an account of the artist that begins and ends with poetry. The book opens with a haunting scene of near-drowning at North Carolina’s Black ...

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 ...