NEW YORK — Once upon a time the Gagosian Gallery produced museum-quality shows at an unmatched rate — at least once a year. Then it seemed to cede this role to the well-oiled machine that is David ...

Cy Twombly, a giant of post-war American art, died at 83 on July 5, 2011. Along with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, he moved painting beyond the heroic domains of Abstract Expressionism. Where ...

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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.

‘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 ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 (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 ...