Cy Twombly’s 9-foot tall Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version II) was announced on Tuesday as the top lot of Christie’s marquee 21st-century auction with an estimate between US$18 million and US$25 million.

The Bowery: Devil’s Mile is the first exhibition to trace the rich cultural history of New York’s oldest thoroughfare, illuminating the Bowery—now home to the New Museum—as one of the most infamous ...

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.

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 ...

George Seferis, “Three Secret Poems,” in ‘M. Byron Raizis, Greek Poetry Translations: Views, Texts, Reviews’ (Athens: Efstathiadis, 1983), 164–65 (© Cy Twombly, reproduced courtesy Alessandro Twombly, ...

Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring scribbles, graffiti and unusual materials fetched millions at auction, died Tuesday. He was 83. Twombly, who had cancer, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A painting from Cy Twombly’s famous Bacchus series is expected to lead Phillips’ upcoming auction with an estimated price of $35 to 45m USD. Created in 2005, Twombly’s Untitled is swathed with ...

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 ...

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 ...