EventsThe New Social Environment#1215
30 Years of the Cy Twombly Gallery
Featuring Carlos Basualdo and Michelle White
Friday, April 25, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
On Cy Twombly's (1928–2011) birthday, writer and curator Carlos Basualdo joins curator Michelle White for a conversation on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Cy Twombly Gallery at the Menil Collection in Houston, the only permanent retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work.
In this Talk
Carlos Basualdo
Carlos Basualdo is the upcoming director of the Nasher Sculpture Center. He is the author of Cy Twombly, Fifty Days at Iliam.
Michelle White
Based in Houston, Texas, Michelle White is Senior Curator at The Menil Collection and is currently working on a show of the fabric works of Robert Rauschenberg. During her tenure at the museum, she has organized exhibitions on the work of Chryssa, Tacita Dean, Richard Serra, Leslie Hewitt, Vija Celmins, Barnett Newman, Walter De Maria, Allora & Calzadilla, Roni Horn and Mona Hatoum, among others.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨