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 ...
The Cy Twombly Foundation is broadening its fight against the Louvre by sailing a lawsuit towards the museum, which the foundation accuses of having compromised a permanent Cy Twombly installation.
Two current shows of drawings—“Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and “Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper” at the Whitney Museum of American Art—make a ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Author Mary Jacobus begins her book Reading Cy Twombly with a description of the poetry collection the artist left behind when he died: works by Sappho, Theocritus, Ovid, and Virgil, along with more ...
Imagine having a home filled with custom-designed art. Lucy Bassett Andrews owns not just one, but three. Granted, she doesn’t live in her art-filled houses, and neither does anyone else, unless you ...