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 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 ...

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 ...

George Seferis, “Three Secret Poems,” in ‘M. Byron Raizis, Greek Poetry Translations: Views, Texts, Reviews’ (Athens: Efstathiadis, 1983), 164–65 (© Cy Twombly, reproduced courtesy Alessandro Twombly, ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You may have already made up your mind about Cy Twombly, one of the painters whose works detractors of modern and contemporary art are most likely to point to and say, “My 4-year-old could do that.” ...

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 ...

The collector’s holding companies had sued his insurers for $400 million to cover paintings that they say had been damaged in a fire. The insurers said they had survived untouched. By Colin Moynihan ...