American artist Cy Twombly died Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. Melissa Block speaks with Josef Helfenstein, the director of the Menil Collection in... Artist Cy Twombly Dies At 83 MELISSA BLOCK, Host: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, “Untitled (In Beauty it is finished)” (1983–2002), [detail], acrylic, wax crayon, pencil and pen on handmade paper in unbound handmade book, 36 ...

The artist Cy Twombly sought to summon a spirit of the classical past in a visual language that was both resolutely of the here and now and so "primitive" — scribbles, loops, scratches and the doodles ...

“There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else,” Sally Mann says in a recent short film on her work. “Their love of the past, their susceptibilities to myth, their ...

The major exhibition “Cy Twombly” opened this week at Centre Pompidou with 140 works of art, including drawings, sculptures, paintings, and photographs that have been thoughtfully brought together by ...

In photos by his wife, Tatiana Franchetti, whose negatives were discovered by his granddaughter, we see more personal sides to the 20th-century master. By Arthur Lubow The collector’s holding ...

“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 ...

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 ...