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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, by Joshua Rivkin. Melville House. 496 pages. $32. Cy Twombly: Fifty Days at Iliam, edited by Carlos Basualdo. Yale University Press. 168 pages. $35. After ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer, whose work is associated with Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Minimalism. Born in Lexington, Virginia, he attended the ...

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 ...