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, ...
Even experienced viewers of modern and contemporary art find themselves challenged to decide whether they ought to steer by enjoyment or interpretation. Mary Jacobus, a professor emirata of English at ...
Cy Twombly put so much effort into hiding his talents that it’s no wonder the art world took ages to appreciate them. Between the early fifties and his death, in 2011, he tried very hard to seem not ...
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 ...
I didn’t know these photographs. But looking at them spanning a wall of a light-filled gallery, I felt the extraordinary presence of the man who took them, the late American artist Cy Twombly. He ...
Even experienced viewers of modern and contemporary art find themselves challenged to decide whether they ought to steer by enjoyment or interpretation. Mary Jacobus, a professor emirata of English at ...