Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Immortality is what makes a god a god. Launching a thunderbolt is an attention-getter, while the transformation of a human ...

Since Cy Twombly's first major exhibition in 1964, the abstract painter's scribbles and scrawls have polarized the art world. Detractors place him firmly in the my-child-could-do-that school of ...

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 ...

Cy Twombly, a giant of post-war American Art, died today at 83. Along with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, he moved painting beyond the heroic domains of Abstract Expressionism. Where his ...

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 ...

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’s looping lines, furious scribbles, and abstract doodles reveal less about the intention of the American postwar artist than the relentless energy with which he painted. His often oblique ...

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 ...

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 ...

The collector’s holding companies had sued his insurers for $400 million to cover paintings that they say had been damaged in a fire. The insurers said they had survived untouched. By Colin Moynihan ...

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 ...