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Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems

Presented by Menil Collection at Menil Collection

December 8, 2009

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The Menil Collection presents a Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems, Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7 p.m.

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The Menil Collection presents a Lecture and Reading: Josef Helfenstein and Edward Snow Cy Twombly/Painting Poems, Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7 p.m.

In a literary program accompanying the rare showing of Cy Twombly’s Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), Menil Director Josef Helfenstein (pictured, photo by George Hixson) will speak briefly about the artist’s use of the words of poet Rainer Maria Rilke in his canvases. Rice Professor Edward Snow, recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations and the Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, will read from his newly released bilingual edition of, The Poetry of Rilke.

A book signing will follow.

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Menil Collection

1515 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006

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Admission is free.

Times:

7:00pm

Phone: 713-525-9400

Parking:

Parking at 1515 West Alabama and on the street near the building.