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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.

Cy Twombly, Orpheus, 1979

[Bassano in Teverina]

© Cy Twombly Foundation

In Perspective comes back with a special episode dedicated to poetry and its deep connection with Cy Twombly and his works. Through the conversation between the poets Cole Swensen and Dean Rader as well as the reading of their poetic works dedicated to the artist, we will be accompanied to an in-between space, where poetry becomes paint and paint becomes poetry, where poem and handwriting are not definitive but living things, where the artist’s paintings look landscapes established by shades of greens “deep and full of life” and the “white” of his sculptures is a constant opening, “an enactment of a borderlessness.”

The audio conversation can be listened both on the Foundation’s Podbean channel and website, visiting the Episode One of In Perspective 2, beginning on October 30th, 2025. A transcription of the conversation will be also available.

The second season of In Perspective will be the starting point of Interludes, further insights which focus on selected works of some of the contributors to the online section. As musical interludes, each work especially dedicated to Cy Twombly will be connected to a music piece.

In Perspective, Season 2: Episode One

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Cy Twombly, Sculpture Detail, Gaeta, 1999
© Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

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In Perspective 2 | Episode Six
Painting Over It.
Tracey Emin on Cy Twombly, light, text, and her third life

A special episode featuring Dame Tracey Emin interviewed by the art historian, Adele Minardi, closes the second season of In Perspective.
Tracey Emin, Margate, March 2024
Courtesy of Harry Weller

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NEA Jazz Master Marilyn Crispell on Cy Twombly
A two-part event will be held
at the Art Institute of Chicago

A gallery talk and a musical performance in
dialogue with Cy Twombly's work.
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1971
[Rome]
© Cy Twombly Foundation

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