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    • Friday, 20 September, 2019
      Visual Arts
      Cy Twombly’s sculpture: rhapsodic, ramshackle and white

      The great painter’s sculptural works combine classicism with trash — and take centre stage in a London show

    • Friday, 31 August, 2018
      Photography
      The lesser-known photography of the painter Cy Twombly

      What happens when a painter switches art forms?

    • Friday, 17 August, 2018
      Photography
      Snapshot: Cy Twombly at the Château La Coste, Provence

      The photographs have the lyrical quality of the late American artist’s paintings

    • Monday, 7 May, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Tacita Dean at the National Portrait Gallery: the warp of time, the shiver of celluloid

      A London show highlights the patient, painterly qualities of the artist’s work

    • Friday, 1 December, 2017
      FT SeriesMiami Art Week 2017
      Museums to visit during Miami Art Week

      What to see around the city

    • Friday, 2 December, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Cy Twombly at the Pompidou Centre: out of time and ahead of it

      The American artist’s first posthumous retrospective sensationally captures his greatness

    • Friday, 9 September, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Reading Cy Twombly by Mary Jacobus review — poetry in paint
    • Friday, 27 May, 2016
      Life & Arts
      How Tate Modern transformed the way we see art

      Enlightenment and learning versus bewilderment and awe — how one gallery transformed the way we experience art and the rest followed

    • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
      Georgina Adam
      Big-money trophies obscure a mixed picture in the art market

      It seems the outside world is finally affecting the market, writes Georgina Adam

    • Thursday, 12 November, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Cy Twombly picture fetches $70m at New York Sotheby’s sale

      Price sets record for the artist as 10-day auction stretch nears end

    • Monday, 9 November, 2015
      Visual Arts
      New York art auction sounds gloomy note

      Anish Kapoor work goes unsold while many other come in below estimates

    • Thursday, 15 October, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery, London — review

      Two bodies of mostly unshown works force a head-on confrontation between early and late Twombly

    • Friday, 8 May, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Dripping with quality: Peter Doig, Cy Twombly and Sean Scully

      Palazzos prove the perfect settings for three giants of painting

    • Thursday, 13 November, 2014
      Life & Arts
      Christie’s sets $853m art auction record

      Works by Warhol, Lichtenstein and Ruscha among those sold

    • Thursday, 12 June, 2014
      Life & Arts
      Cy Twombly works worth £50m donated to Tate
    • Friday, 29 November, 2013
      Life & Arts
      Bronze meets tin at the Frick Collection
    • Friday, 14 December, 2012
      Life & Arts
      The old-new thing

      Curators this year have delighted in juxtaposing Old Masters and contemporary artists – but do the comparisons always make sense?

    • Friday, 22 June, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Last but not least

      Recklessness, daring and urgency define the later works of Turner, Monet and Twombly at Tate Liverpool

    • Friday, 25 May, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Time is on his side

      Alex Katz, pre-eminent painter of modern life, challenges the camera by showing painting’s ability to freeze the moment

    • Friday, 18 May, 2012
      David Tang
      Controversial cushions

      I have two practical and one theoretical reasons for my displeasure about square cushions being placed in a diamond shape

    • Saturday, 28 April, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Gone – but still doing good work

      The foundations established by the giants of modern art have become a philanthropic force to reckon with

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Cy Twombly: Works from the Sonnabend Collection, Eykyn Maclean, London

      A gallerist’s private collection illuminates the long apprenticeship of a master painter

    • Friday, 3 February, 2012
      Life & Arts
      The art market: Ivory and towers

      Antiques shine, auctions soar and Kapoor hits the big time

    • Friday, 23 December, 2011
      Life & Arts
      Let us adore them

      It’s been a good year for painters, male dancers and female pop stars – tempered by heroic dissidence and untimely death

    • Friday, 2 December, 2011
      ReviewLife & Arts
      A man of the wold

      Attempts to fix David Hockney’s place in history coincide with a Royal Academy exhibition of his art work

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