Tag: Cy Twombly

Xiyao Wang: A Carnival in the Forest

This colourful lyrical abstraction sweeps the viewer up in its kaleidoscopic eddies and perpetual vicissitude
Exercising Freedom: Encounters with Art, Artists and Communities

Drawing on archival material, this fascinating exhibition looks at the Whitechapel Gallery’s pioneering role in setting up an education department and engaging with its local schools and communities
Ann Thomson – interview: ‘Art is a means of renewing culture’

Now in her late-80s, the Australian artist discusses how her love of Aboriginal art was sparked as a child, being influenced by the Scottish-born artist Ian Fairweather along with American, French and Chinese art, and being compared to Cy Twombly
Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’

Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…
Writings on the Wall

This exhibition is a tribute to six 20th-century artists who drew inspiration from the street art and graffiti they found in their cities, in a celebration of mark making both ancient and modern
Sara Piccinini – interview: ‘We don’t want to give an idea of completeness with this exhibition, that’s not our goal’

In 2007, the formidable art collection of Achille Maramotti, the man behind the Max Mara fashion house, was opened to the public. Sara Piccinini, senior coordinator of the collection, talks about the history of the collection, and the thinking behind…
Glenstone extension opens: Power and control yield irrepressible beauty

Mitchell and Emily Rales’s $125m extension of Glenstone – due to open on 4 October – makes it one of the world’s largest private museums, with six buildings, 230 landscaped acres and a formidable collection. The only problem will be…
Jutta Koether: Tour de Madame

In Munich, the most significant retrospective of the German artist to date, shows her paintings from the last four decades, including rarely seen early works, and an epic new cycle
Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper

An exhibition of more than 80 drawings by Cy Twombly is on show at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. The works give an insight into the formation of Twombly’s characteristic style through process and experimentation
Calligraffiti: 1984/2013 – the art happening that launched the New York fall season

Leila Heller Gallery, New York 5 September – 5 October 2013