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Cy Twombly’s Art: Visualizing Silence, Painting Poetry, Calling on the Gods

A lecture by Christine Kondoleon, curator of the exhibition Cy Twombly: Making Past Present, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Cy Twombly, Detail of Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), 1994.

The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist

Photo: Anthony Flores

Exhibitions

The Gift of Drawing: Cy Twombly

An exhibition of works on paper from the donation of the Cy Twombly Foundation to the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston.

Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1986

The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation

Announcements

Cy Twombly Award for Poetry
2026

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced the recipients of the 2026 Grants to Artist.

Harmony Holiday is named the 2026 recipient of the

Cy Twombly Award for Poetry.

Cy Twombly, 1980s

Courtesy Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

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In Perspective 2 | Episode Four
Khadijah Queen, Veil(s) in Relation

A new In Perspective episode reflecting on Cy Twombly, Harold Budd and the idea of the veil through the words of the 2025 recipient of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, Khadijah Queen.

Cy Twombly, Study for Treatise on the Veil, 1970
[Rome]
The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist
© The Menil Collection, Houston

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Cy Twombly
A three volumes publication,
presented at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome

A cultural portrait of Cy Twombly and his deep connection with the city of Rome to celebrate the opening of the permanent gallery dedicated to the artist at the museum.

Announcements

In Perspective 2 | Episode Three
Un/veiled.
Cy Twombly, Music, Inspirations
ISABELLA SUMMERS

A special In Perspective episode to discover Isabella Summers’ musical project To Neptune, Ruler of the Seas Profound, devoted to Cy Twombly’s life and work.
A video of her live performance which took place at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio in Rome on the occasion of the first edition of the Un/veiled program will be available for forty-eight hours beginning on January 29th, 2026.

Isabella Summers
To Neptune, Ruler of the Seas Profound
Courtesy Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio
Ph. Valerio Polici

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In Perspective 2 | Episode Two
Imagining soundscapes.
From Rome to San Francisco and back

The poet Dean Rader and Eleonora Di Erasmo exchanged a series of letters from September to November 2025, talking about Cy Twombly, Wallace Stevens, poetry and sound in the works of the artist for the second episode of In Perspective.

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In Perspective 2 | Episode One
Literature Turned to a Painting
DEAN RADER
&
COLE SWENSEN

The second season of In Perspective opens with a special episode dedicated to poetry through the words and the poetic works by the poets Cole Swensen and Dean Rader.

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The Spell

A playlist dedicated to Cy Twombly

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In Perspective | Episode Eleven
Un/veiled. Inside the creative process (after Cy Twombly)
Cy Twombly
&
Morton Feldman

The latest episode closing the first season of In Perspective is dedicated to Cy Twombly and the composer Morton Feldman, featuring a new podcast by the music journalist and radio host, Francesco Adinolfi, Morton Feldman. The Whisper of Notes.

Listening station - Triadic Memories (1981) by Morton Feldman
Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome
Ph. Tiziano Ercoli & Riccardo Giancola

Cy Twombly Foundation

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