In 'Duino', Cy Twombly has created a surface reminiscent of his renowned large 'blackboard' paintings of the same era: a dark, graphite-colored ground in oil-based housepaint is washed with gestural swathes of chalky pigment, as if bearing the traces of inscriptions written and removed.⠀ ⠀ The present work forms a concise tribute to the Duino Elegies, a cycle of intense, mystical poems concerned with beauty, suffering and salvation by Rainer Maria Rilke. Their ideas dovetail with Twombly's own i

Immerse yourself in Cy Twombly's 9-part series of "green paintings." The artist made the work for the 1988 Venice Biennale and noted that in the depths of the hot and humid summer show, he wanted the works to feel like a cool mint julep. Refresh this week and see these works at the Cy Twombly gallery at menil.org/visit. Cover 🎨: Cy Twombly, "Untitled" (detail), 1988. Oil and acrylic on plywood. 103 7/16 × 63 1/4 in. (262.7 × 160.7 cm). The Menil Collection, Houston, Gift of the artist. © Menil

Cy Twombly’s Roses unfolds across vast panels as more than floral imagery — it’s a meditation on beauty, memory, and poetic presence. Created especially for Museum Brandhorst’s (@museumbrandhorst) central gallery, the six monumental canvases pulse with gestural brushstrokes and fragments of verse, weaving color, movement, and language into a tapestry of feeling. Take a tour of this iconic room with Achim Hochdörfer (@achimhochdorfer), Museum Brandhorst’s Director. He explains Twombly’s inspirati