Twombly: Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history
R.I.P. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Born in Lexington, Virginia in 1928, Twombly actively distanced himself from the major movements of 20th-century art, both stylistically and geographically. [...]
Public Sculpture Shamed in Dallas
Robert Irwin’s Portal Park Piece (Slice), 1981, is the choicest strip of bathroom wall a vandal could hope for. It’s eight feet high, spans three [...]
Cy Twombly dead at 83
America’s first graffiti painter Cy Twombly died in Rome Tuesday at the age of 83. Known for his groundbreaking (or wall breaking) conflation of drawing, [...]
Tracey Moffatt at Artpace: Cinematic mashups of mothers, lovers, artists, artistocrats and doom
Emotions roil and crest like crashing waves in Australian-born artist Tracey Moffatt’s “Handmade,” seven cinematic mashups made from 1999 to 2010 on view through Sept. [...]
Hunting, fighting and partying on the Nile: really, really old rock drawing unearthed in Egypt
Embattled antiquities director Hawass said in a statement Monday that images of hunting, fighting and celebrations along the banks of the Nile River drawn on [...]
Odessa Iron: first Smithsonian loan to Nöel Art Museum unveiled, Tobolowsky’s West Texas art blitz begins!
The Ellen Nöel Art Museum in Odessa, made a Smithsonian affiliate last year, is receiving its first shipment of art from the Washington D.C.-based national [...]
