The retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zürich is curated by Harald Szeemann.
1988
Retrospective at the Musée National d’Art Moderne
A Twombly retrospective is held at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.
1989
The Philadelphia Museum of Art opens permanent rooms for Twombly
The Philadelphia Museum of Art opens permanent rooms devoted to the ten-part cycle Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), based on Alexander Pope’s translation of The Iliad.
1994
Retrospective at MoMA in New York
The retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art travels on to Houston, Los Angeles and Berlin. The same year the curator Kirk Varnedoe calls Twombly’s work influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and difficult even for sophisticated initiates of postwar art.
1995
The Cy Twombly Pavilion opens in Houston
The Cy Twombly Pavilion of the Menil Collection, designed by Renzo Piano, houses more than thirty of his paintings, sculptures and works on paper dating from 1953 to 1994 (other accounts say works made from 1954 on).
