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 ...

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 ...

With its fanning lines and scrawled numbers suggesting troop movements, Cy Twombly’s “Synopsis of a Battle (Primary Title)” (1968) evokes a military diagram dashed off on a blackboard — a blackboard ...

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.

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‘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 ...

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, "Synopsis of a Battle (ISSUS)," 1968. (Courtesy Katherine Wetzel; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) A new season brings a new slate of exhibits to Boston ...

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