“A Room of Her Own” Group shows of women artists are exceptionally patronizing when the only connection between the works presented is that they were all made by someone with a vagina. That’s the ...

Like most of the artist's output, the paintings, sculpture and works on paper in this exhibition are hard to categorize but easy to love. Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1971; oil-based house paint and wax ...

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 ...

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 ...

February marks the 30th anniversary of the Cy Twombly Gallery, a part of the Menil Collection, in Montrose. A monumental gift from the Cy Twombly Foundation in Italy helped the museum celebrate a ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

“Cy Twombly” at Gagosian is a major presentation of an artist who can be difficult to grasp. The swanky gallery’s uptown Manhattan location on Madison Avenue devotes two floors to Twombly’s output ...

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 ...

The Cy Twombley Foundation has purchased a Beaux Arts mansion on the Upper East Side for $27.5-million to house its headquarters and a museum dedicated to the late abstract artist, says The Wall ...

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 ...