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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

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The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist

© The Menil Collection, Houston

The connection between painting, poetry and sound through the eyes of a contemporary poet and writer, Khadijah Queen. Her essay, Veil(s) in Relation, thought specifically for this episode, reflects on the series of Cy Twombly’s Treatise on the Veil paintings and related drawings, intertwining her thoughts on the artworks with the musical pieces by Harold Budd, Mars and the Artist (after Cy Twombly), 2011, and Veil of Orpheus (Cy Twombly’s), 2012, dedicated to Cy Twombly.

In Queen’s words the “veil” becomes a physical material, and metaphorically a mediation tool in language. The artist’s paintings function as a kind of time travel, connecting history to present. The nature of transparency: what we know and believe with our eyes, what history tells us, and what facilitates or prevents that simultaneous connection.

In Perspective, Season 2: Episode Four

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In Perspective 2 | Episode Five
In every line, In every sound

Listen the multiple sounds in Cy Twombly’s works with the musician and composer, Teho Teardo, and the music journalist and radio host, Francesco Adinolfi. A new special episode dedicated to the artist, sound and field recording on In Perspective.
Raibl Lake, 2025
Ph. Teho Teardo

Events

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
© Menil Foundation, Inc.
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
© Cy Twombly Foundation

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