Cy Twombly’s Art: Visualizing Silence, Painting Poetry, Calling on the Gods
Cy Twombly’s Art: Visualizing Silence, Painting Poetry, Calling on the Gods
April 16, 2026 at 7 pm
The Menil Collection, Houston.
Cy Twombly, Detail of Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor), 1994.
Oil, acrylic, oil stick, crayon, charcoal, and graphite on canvas, 157 1/2 × 624 in. (400.1 × 1585 cm).
The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist
© Menil Foundation, Inc.
Photo: Anthony Flores
Dr. Christine Kondoleon, Chair Emerita, Department of the Art of Ancient Greece and Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, draws on her curatorial work for the exhibition Making Past Present: Cy Twombly in this lecture.
Highlighting Twombly’s dialogue with antiquity across his collections and work, she offers new perspectives from the exhibition, and explores the role of silence, sound, poetry, and the divine in his legacy.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
For further information:
The Menil Collection, Houston
menil.org
