NEW YORK — “Death and the Maid,” Cecily Brown’s solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, could have been better. The show boasts a dozen or so big, ambitious paintings ...

I had two burning questions as I air-kissed my way through the glamorous reception for “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this week. Is she the first ...

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 ...

Cecily Brown’s art makes me feel like I’m trapped in a “Twilight Zone” episode, getting my ironic comeuppance. Everything I thought I loved in a painting—rich color, fleshy figuration ...

No other location could better showcase Cecily Brown’s endless explorations, reinterpretations and variations of art history than the treasure trove of masterpieces at the Barnes Foundation in ...

One could say Cecily Brown is drunk on art history. Throughout her 25-year career, the virtuosic British artist has engaged with seemingly every aspect of the Western canon—Renaissance artists ...

Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale, the second and final evening sale of the Spring Marquee Week took place Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in the auction house’s Rockefeller Center saleroom in the heart of ...

“Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations” is the first solo show by the artist in Philadelphia. A co-production of the Barnes and the Dallas Museum of Art, “Themes and Variations” is an overview of some ...

The appetizing deer and geese carcasses of Cecily Brown's "The Splendid Table" (2019-2020) reinforce the emphasis on the animal side of human nature.(Genevieve Hanson / The Hartland & Mackie ...

One reason the British-born artist Cecily Brown, 53, came to New York in 1994 was that she wanted to paint, and in the London of Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst, with their fried-egg-and-kebab ...

Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze. By Deborah Solomon Reporting from Philadelphia Is there ...