Observer caught up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, critic and curator to discuss the art of words and the role of queer identity in “The Writing’s on the Wall" at the Hill Art Foundation.

Photographs Dean captured from that sleepless lock-in, from approximately 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., inspired ... making art. Later, Dean asked him, "Does painting make you happy now?" To which Twombly ...

Dean remembers the moment clearly. She was an undergraduate at Falmouth School of Art. A lecturer had suggested she look at this artist called Cy Twombly, who at that point was not that well known ...