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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

Announcements

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

Events

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

Announcements

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.
Cy Twombly, Untitled, August 16, 1990
[Bassano in Teverina]
27 3/4 x 22 1/16 in.
© Cy Twombly Foundation

Announcements

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

Announcements

The Spell

A playlist dedicated to Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly, Celtic Boat, Gaeta, 1994
© Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

Announcements

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

Announcements

Major Gift from the Cy Twombly Foundation to the GNAMC - Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome

On September 20, 2025, the GNAMC - Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome will inaugurate a gallery dedicated to Cy Twombly, featuring 12 works donated by the Cy Twombly Foundation, including a Picasso, together with the Foundation’s support for a renovated conservation laboratory and the launch of an international postgraduate program dedicated to the conservation of works on paper.
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1957
[Rome]
GNAMC - Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
Gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation
© Cy Twombly Foundation

Announcements

In Perspective | Episode Ten
Cy Twombly Inscriptions

A new In Perspective episode dedicated to Cy Twombly Inscriptions (2022), a comprehensive publication by the art historian Thierry Greub, which collects in six volumes the literary inscriptions included in Cy Twombly's works.
The genesis of the publication will be the main topic of the next episode through the conversation between the author and Eleonora Di Erasmo, Managing Director of the Cy Twombly Foundation.
Cy Twombly's handwritten note
Courtesy Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio

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