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A lecture on Cy Twombly at Princeton University

Researcher Anthi-Danaé Spathoni will discuss her recent paper Reading, Scribbling, Copying: Cy Twombly and the Modern Greek Poets on March 22, 2023. 

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"Cy Twombly, Morocco, 1952/1953” at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, Morocco

The exhibition, curated by Nicola Del Roscio, explores through Cy Twombly’s paintings, photographs and sketches, the artist’s fascination with Morocco.   

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Exhibition tour and book signing at Gagosian, New York

Art historian and lecturer Thierry Greub will lead a tour of the exhibition Cy Twombly, on view at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, on February 23, 2023. 

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“Cy Twombly” an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by the artist at Gagosian, New York

Gagosian’s exhibition in New York coincides with Making Past Present: Cy Twombly, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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“Cy Twombly: Making Past Present”, first presented at the Getty Centre, will open soon at the MFA, Boston

The exhibition, which explores Twombly’s lifelong fascination with the ancient Mediterranean world, curated by Christine Kondoleon, will open in January 2023 at the MFA, Boston

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Live performance by Isabella Summers at Gagosian, Beverly Hills

Inside the current exhibition Cy Twombly, the musician, producer, and film and television composer, Isabella Summers, will present her piece “To Neptune, Ruler of the Seas Profound” inspired by Twombly’s life and work. 

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Screening of the film "Cy Dear" in Europe and in the US

The film that traces the life and work of Cy Twombly, produced by Good Day Films and Sky Arte, will be presented at special venues, and on TV channels, throughout Europe and in the US.  

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Reading Cy Twombly Backwards

Curator Christine Kondoleon will present her lecture Reading Cy Twombly Backwards at the Getty Center and online via Zoom.

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Gagosian Beverly Hills to Present Works from Cy Twombly’s Final Decade

The exhibition coincides with Cy Twombly: Making Past Present, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.  

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Cy Twombly: Making Past present

The exhibition devoted to Cy Twombly’s engagement with the art and poetry of ancient Greece and Rome to open this summer at the Getty Center, Los Angeles. 

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Un/veiled. Cy Twombly, Music, Inspirations

A programme of concerts, video screenings and piped music with an exhibition of works by Cy Twombly at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome. 

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Cy Dear is now available for streaming

The film that traces the life and work of Cy Twombly, produced by Good Day Films and Sky Arte, is now available for streaming on VOD. 

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Cy Twombly Award for poetry

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts named Kay Ulanday Barrett the 2022 recipient of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry.

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“Courbet, l’atelier sans fin”: a symposium on the subject of artist’s studio

A study on Cy Twombly’s photographs of his studios will be presented as part of the symposium .

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The French Academy in Rome presents “Scribbling and Doodling. From Leonardo da Vinci to Cy Twombly”

By exploring the multiple features of the practice of scribbling and doodling, the exhibition unveils how these experimental, transgressive, regressive or liberating graphic gestures, have punctuated the history of artistic creation. 

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“A century of the Artist’s studio: 1920 – 2020” at the Whitechapel Gallery, London

The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, installations and films depicting the studio as work of art, and presents documentation of artists’ studios by world-renowned photographers and filmmakers. Photographs by Cy Twombly are on display. 

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A newly endowed position at The Whitney Museum of American Art: the Cy Twombly Conservator of Paintings

The new position is funded by a gift from the Cy Twombly Foundation honoring Cy Twombly’s long relationship with the museum. 

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A newly renovated gallery featuring works by Cy Twombly at the MFA Boston

As part of a major renovation of the museum's wing dedicated to Art of the Ancient World, the new gallery explores the reception of ancient art by 20th and 21st century artists. 

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"sigh, sigh, sigh" at La Fondazione, Rome

The exhibition will feature photographs by Tacita Dean and her film of Cy Twombly’s studio in Lexington, Virginia.

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"Souvenirs of Time" at Gagosian, Rome

An exhibition of photographs by Cy Twombly featuring shots taken in the US and Italy throughout his career. 

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"Hong Kong Exchange" at Gagosian, Hong Kong

Cy Twombly’s oil painting Untitled (1957) is exhibited alongside works by some of the gallery’s most esteemed artists.

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Cy Twombly AWARD FOR POETRY

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced the 2021 Grants to Artists awards, including the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. 

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Online Event

Time and Place: Julie Mehretu and Cy Twombly. An event to celebrate the recently published MFA’s catalogue Cy Twombly: Making Past Present to accompany the upcoming exhibition at the MFA, Boston and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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The Cy Twombly Foundation in support of the educational community in Greece

A donation to enhance Greek students' access to distance learning.

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Artist Relief

The Cy Twombly Foundation joins the Artist Relief initiative as a funding partner.

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The tri-state relief fund to support non-salaried workers in the visual arts

The Cy Twombly Foundation joins forces with The Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Teiger Foundation to establish a fund to provide grants to cultural workers impacted by COVID-19 crisis.

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The Cy Twombly Foundation in support of the Italian Community

The Cy Twombly Foundation supports medical needs in Italy.

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NYC Contemporary Art Nonprofits Consortium Fund

The Cy Twombly Foundation supports the NYC non-profit arts community.

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FCA COVID-19 RELIEF FUND

The Cy Twombly Foundation supports the Foundation for Contemporary Arts COVID-19 Relief Fund for artists. 

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Remembering Germano Celant

The Cy Twombly Foundation is deeply saddened by the loss of Germano Celant, an eminent curator and critic who championed the work of Italian contemporary artists.

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"Duino Elegies" at Gagosian, New York

Cy Twombly's painting Duino (1967) is included in this group exhibition that traces the resonance of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry through artworks spanning the past 150 years.

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The Drawing Center to offer free admission for three years

The Drawing Center in New York will offer free admission for the next three years thanks to a grant from the Cy Twombly Foundation.

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"Monochrome No.2" at Ordovas, London

On display, for the first time, a Cy Twombly sculpture made at his seaside home in Gaeta in 2005. 

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Cy Twombly Award for Poetry

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts announces the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry.

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“Troy: Myth and reality” at the British Museum in London

Cy Twombly’s painting Vengeance of Achilles is part of the new exhibition that highlights objects, artefacts and works of art inspired by the epic Trojan war and its legends. 

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Cy Twombly: Portraits

At the National Portrait Gallery in London, a display of works that reveal the importance of classical art and figuration within Cy Twombly’s ouvre.

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A soirée with Cy Twombly at the Brandhorst Museum, Munich

An evening dedicated to Cy Twombly, celebrating the publishing of the two most recent catalogues by Verlag Schirmer / Mosel and the screening of the film Cy Dear.

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Talk on Cy Twombly at Frieze Masters

A conversation between Edmund de Waal and Christine Kondoleon will be held as part of the Frieze Masters Talks program.  

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Cy Twombly: Sculpture opens at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London

The exhibition, in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation, marks the publication of the second volume of the catalogue raisonné of sculptures, edited by Nicola Del Roscio and published by Schirmer/Mosel. 

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The Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture is now complete

Edited by Nicola Del Roscio, volume II presents the sculptures created between 1998 and the artist's death in 2011.

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Symposium at the Frick Collection “Above and Beyond: Ceiling Painting in the History of Art”

As part of the symposium, researcher Anthi-Danaé Spathoni will present her paper “33 meters of immortality”, Cy Twombly’s Ceiling for the Louvre.

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Talk and book presentation at the New York Public Library

A conversation between Carlos Basualdo and David R. Baum to present Cy Twombly: Fifty Days at Iliam, recently published by Yale University Press. 

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CY DEAR. A Journey through the life and works of Cy Twombly

We are proud to announce the world premiere of CY DEAR on March 20th, as part of the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), in Montreal. 

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"Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera" at the Met Fifth Avenue

Cy Twombly’s 1962 painting Dutch Interior is exhibited alongside works from The Met collection.

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MOMA’S EXHIBITION “THE LONG RUN” FEATURING CY TWOMBLY’S WORK

The series of paintings The Four Seasons, along with two sculptures, are displayed on the fourth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 

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"Cy Twombly: Photographs" on view at Château La Coste

The show is comprised of thirty photographs, taken between 1985 and 2008, variously depicting intimate spaces, landscapes, and natural subjects.

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"Cy Twombly: Photographs" at the Sursock Museum, Beirut

For the first time in Lebanon, an exhibition of photographs by Cy Twombly.

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Drawings and works on paper by Cy Twombly on view at Gagosian Gallery New York

The exhibition, organized in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation, marks the completion of the Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings, with the eighth and final volume.

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Coronation of Sesostris on view at Gagosian Gallery New York

Cy Twombly’s epic painting is back on display at Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue after being shown there for the first time in 2000.

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The Cy Twombly Foundation supports a new award for poetry

An annual grant to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts is supported by a multi-year gift from the Cy Twombly Foundation in memory of the artist who was influenced and inspired by poetry throughout his lifetime.

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The Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings vol. 8 has been published

Volume 8 brings the Catalogue Raisonné of Cy Twombly Drawings, edited by Nicola Del Roscio, to completion. Spanning the years 1990 to 2011, this last volume covers the artist's final years.  

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Cy Twombly at Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich

An exhibition that revolves around the tale of Hero and Leander is on view at the gallery in Zurich, along with a show of photographs capturing the artist in the early 60s.

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Divine Dialogues: Cy Twombly and Greek Antiquity

Works by Cy Twombly, inspired by Greek mythology, are presented side by side with ancient artefacts at the Museum of Cycladic Art, in Athens.  

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Cy Twombly: an exhibition of photography on view at Gagosian, Athens

An exhibition of Cy Twombly’s photography, to coincide with “Divine Dialogues” at the Museum of Cycladic Art, is on view at Gagosian, Athens.

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The Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings vol. 7 has been published

The seventh, and penultimate, volume of the Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings is now published and it covers the years 1980 to 1989, when the artist moved his main residence to Gaeta, Italy. During these years, places, landscapes, and plants became the principal subjects of his art.

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Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington

The exhibition of photographs by Sally Mann is on view at Gagosian, Paris.

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Cy Twombly. A major retrospective on view at the Centre Pompidou, Paris

Cy Twombly, on view on the top floor of the Centre Pompidou, brings together some 140 works of the artist, from his early works of the 50s until his latest works in 2011.

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Orpheus: an exhibition of works by Cy Twombly at Gagosian, Paris

The exhibition coincides with the retrospective Cy Twombly opening at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, on Nov. 30th 2016

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The Cy Twombly Foundation donates five sculptures to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Five bronze sculptures by Cy Twombly have entered the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation.   

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Cy Twombly: LUX

The Museu d'Art Contemporani d’Eivissa - MACE presents the exhibition of photographs: "LUX" by Cy Twombly.

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Cy Twombly Photographs: Lyrical Variations

This long-awaited exhibition brings to Japan a large selection of some 100 Twombly photographs spanning over six decades from 1951 to 2011.

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Cy Twombly in the inaugural exhibition at the Met Breur, New York

The group show Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. 

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Cy Twombly Photographs

An exhibition of photographs by Cy Twombly at Gagosian London on Davies Street, to coincide with paintings, sculptures, and works on paper at the new Grosvenor Hill gallery.

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Cy Twombly inaugurates the new Gagosian Gallery in London

An exhibition of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Cy Twombly for the opening of the new gallery at Grosvenor Hill in Mayfair. 
 

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Cy Twombly, Photographer: on view at the American Academy in Rome

The first retrospective in Italy of photographs by Cy Twombly, this focused exhibition features work spanning over fifty years.

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Cy Twombly’s Treatise on the Veil on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York

This exhibition showcases the artist’s monumental painting Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), executed in Rome in 1970, and its related drawings, all from the Menil Collection in Houston.

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Cy Twombly at Casa Malaparte, Capri

The works made by Cy Twombly in Capri during the summer of 1970 are on display in Villa Malaparte for only one evening. 

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Fifty Years of Works on Paper on view at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

The first major solo exhibition in Japan by Cy Twombly. This exhibition was first held in 2003 at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Cy Twombly. Paradise

Cy Twombly's work returns to Venice with a major monographic exhibition at Ca' Pesaro.

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Cy Twombly at Gagosian New York

The exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Cy Twombly Foundation, comprises a group of the last paintings and sculptures of the late Cy Twombly, many of which have never been seen publicly. 

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Cy Twombly Foundation makes major gift to Tate

Following the wishes of the American artist Cy Twombly, who died in 2011, the Cy Twombly Foundation has made a major gift of works to Tate.

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Cy Twombly. Paradise

Solo show at Museum Jumex Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City.

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Turner, Monet, Twombly. Later Paintings.

An exhibition curated by Jeremy Lewison and organised by Moderna Museet in collaboration with Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Tate Liverpool.

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The Ceiling: a permanent installation by Cy Twombly at the Louvre

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

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