February 27-June 21, 2025
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present A Rose Is, an expansive group exhibition centering on Cy Twombly’s monumental, four-part painting The Rose III, 2008, which combines colossal roses, exploding in full bloom, alongside text fragments from Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Roses.” A conflation of painting and poetry, the Twombly forms the jump-off point for an exhibition that explores abstraction, poetics, language, and the iconography and mythology of the rose. Artists include Polly Apfelbaum, Arakawa & Madeline Gins, Genesis Belanger, Joe Brainard, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Ann Craven, Sara Cwynar, Alex Da Corte, Jay DeFeo, Ethyl Eichelberger, Awol Erizku, Cerith Wynn Evans, Tony Feher, Allison Janae Hamilton, Gabriella Hirst, Peter Hujar, John Jarboe, Anna Jermolaewa, Sarah Jones, Anselm Kiefer, Lee Krasner, Dr. Lakra, George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nicolas Party, Irving Penn, Kay Rosen, James Rosenquist, Taryn Simon, Charles Sheeler, Kiki Smith, Haim Steinbach, Andy Warhol, among others.