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The Barnes Foundation is presenting the east coast premiere of an exhibition that showcases three decades of work from a contemporary British-born painter.
Behind the gilded gates and opulent facade of Blenheim Palace, there’s a conversation happening between the work of Cecily Brown and the contents of the palace. The subject is British heritage, and ...
While hanging Cecily Brown’s new exhibition, the curators at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia noticed that Brown, the British-born, New York City–based painter, would suddenly slip away ...
This exhibition brings together works that twist figuration and abstraction into something subversive and erotic yet grounded in art history. When Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed to Leonardo da ...
“Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations” is the first solo show by the artist in Philadelphia.
This analogy is, of course, about Cecily Brown, whose survey “Themes and Variations” has just come to the Barnes Foundation. Brown (b. 1969) is one of those Cubans, digging into the ...
The Barnes welcomes acclaimed British artist Cecily Brown for her largest U.S. presentation.Cecily Brown's "Madrepora (Alluvial)" For centuries, women have been artistically depicted through a ...
In a retrospective opening at the Barnes Foundation, Brown is revealed to be a painter deeply attuned to the contradictions of our time, with a practice rooted in inheritance but never bound by it.