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 ...

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 ...

Cy Twombly, “Untitled (In Beauty it is finished)” (1983–2002), [detail], acrylic, wax crayon, pencil and pen on handmade paper in unbound handmade book, 36 ...

American artist Cy Twombly died Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. Melissa Block speaks with Josef Helfenstein, the director of the Menil Collection in Houston, where much of Twombly's art is on display. The ...

“There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else,” Sally Mann says in a recent short film on her work. “Their love of the past, their susceptibilities to myth, their ...

The artist Cy Twombly sought to summon a spirit of the classical past in a visual language that was both resolutely of the here and now and so "primitive" — scribbles, loops, scratches and the doodles ...

The late Cy Twombly will be forever remembered as a legend among modern artists, celebrated for the expressiveness and poetic allusions of his painting. But at Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill location in ...

<p>Cy Twombly was one of the most important figures in postwar American art, even though his spare childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the ...

In November, one of Cy Twombly’s “blackboard” paintings will go up for sale at Christie’s and may set a new record for the artist at auction. Created in 1970, the painting, Untitled, made of white wax ...

The last great masterpieces of abstract expressionism have descended on Mayfair – but this exhibition feels too market-led to let such colossal works shine You can’t fault art dealer Larry Gagosian’s ...

“We thought of each other as kindred spirits,” says Mann, who recounts how the two often took walks, went for long rides in her old BMW (“Cy loved that car because it was like a luxury boat, and he ...

In photos by his wife, Tatiana Franchetti, whose negatives were discovered by his granddaughter, we see more personal sides to the 20th-century master. By Arthur Lubow The collector’s holding ...