Cy Twombly Foundation Endows New Conservatorship at the Whitney Museum

The Cy Twombly Foundation has pledged funding for a conservatorship to be endowed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the site of Twombly’s first New York museum show. The newly created position—to be named the Cy Twombly Conservator of Paintings and supported by a gift of $2.5 million, according to Artnet News—will go to Matthew Skopek, who was joined the museum as an assistant conservator in 2007 and was promoted to associate conservator in 2015.
In a statement, Whitney di