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 ...

In the artist’s first major U.S. museum survey, she bonds with Cy Twombly through works on paper, films and photographs. By Robin Pogrebin Exhibitions at the Getty Center and Gagosian focus on his ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Mavericks have always made art history interesting. In any era, personal visions that run counter to the trends of the day risk ostracism and obscurity. Cy Twombly, who died in ...

When double bassist Damon Smith was invited last year to play a concert with one of his idols, the British guitarist Keith Rowe, he didn't prepare by practicing his instrument. He headed to the Menil ...

The Menil Collection's Cy Twombly Gallery is one of few museums in the world with permanent installations dedicated to the work of a single artist. Twombly, who was from Virginia, spent most of his ...

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 ...

Cy Twombly, the legendary American artist and sculptor whose sprawling abstract scribbles reinvigorated abstract art in the 1950s and 60s, passed away in Rome on Tuesday. He was 83-years-old. A close ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It’s difficult to make a calibrated and semi-nuanced case in favor of a prominent artist who’s just died. Opinions at that moment -- and we have one here with the passing of Cy Twombly-- tend to fall ...

To call them scribbles is both inappropriate and perfect. The word implies something easily dismissed, but it also tells you something about the deliberate, childlike crudeness of Cy Twombly’s work.