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# Drawing Center Will Be Free Through 2023, Thanks to Cy Twombly Foundation Grant
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/drawing-center/
- Published: 2020-02-20T12:00:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:22:47.000Z
- Description: On February 20, coinciding with the opening of its Curtis Talwst Santiago and Guo Fengyi exhibitions, guests can visit the center free of charge.
- Author: Monica Castillo
- Tags: In Brief, New York, The Drawing Center, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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Curtis Talwst Santiago, “Whatever lay ahead he had already accepted” (2018), Spray paint, oil, charcoal, pastel, and acrylic on canvas, 35 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches (90.2 x 90.2 cm) (Image courtesy of the artist and Rachel Uffner Gallery)

A new multi-year grant from the Cy Twombly Foundation will open the doors of the Drawing Center through February 2023\. Starting today, February 20, visitors can see the space’s newest exhibitions, [*Guo Fengyi: To See from a Distance*](http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/9/upcoming/2247/guo-fengyi/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [*Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter*](http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/9/upcoming/2245/curtis-talwst-santiago/?ref=hyperallergic.com), free of charge. The initiative builds on the experience of a previous grant that also covered the cost of admission and increased visitor numbers by 50 percent. 

The late Cy Twombly was a painter, sculptor, photographer and draftsman, a skill that Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of the Drawing Center, [said](https://mcusercontent.com/65bf09e230df3a5d13c2fda0c/files/6d6e1520-c0a4-433d-8b26-09eee887719d/PressRelease%5FFreeAdmission%5FCyTwomblyFoundation.01.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) made the grant a natural extension of the organization’s mission, to widen its audience “and encourage visitors of all backgrounds” to visit the Manhattan art space.