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The Ceiling
A Permanent Installation by Cy Twombly at the Musée du Louvre, Paris

Cy Twombly was given the honor of designing a painting for the Salles des Bronzes Antiques, one of the Louvre’s largest galleries.

Cy Twombly, The Ceiling (detail)
Photo © Ellen Martin

An immense blue sky, dotted with floating spheres and inscribed with the names of illustrious Greek sculptors, now decorates the ceiling of the Salles des Bronzes Antiques.

A fully illustrated book accompanies this permanent installation. Cy Twombly. The Ceiling. Un plafond pour le Louvre. Edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac. Published by Louvre Éditions.

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Announcements

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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