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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 ...
“The Black Paintings were to sort of throw a spanner ... And there are only so many stories, really.” “Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations” is on view at the Barnes Foundation in ...
“Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid,” focused on Brown’s exploration of mortality and vanity, the DMA’s show takes a broader thematic approach, with nearly 30 large-scale paintings on vie ...
Cecily Brown during the press preview at the Barnes ... irrupts like ink or rain onto the nude figure in one of her Black Paintings from the early 2000s, on view in the show.
“Obviously, the curators have their opinions. It’s their show as much as mine.” Cecily Brown's "High Society" (1998) was inspired by historical paintings from art history, such as Peter Paul Reubens's ...
(Genevieve Hanson / The Hartland & Mackie Family/Labora Collection and The Rachofsky Collection) Almost three decades after her bravura New York debut, Cecily Brown’s paintings still hum with ...
Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations. Presented in the Roberts Gallery, the exhibit features dynamic and often erotic paintings that showcase a flip of gender stereotypes in art history and pop ...
"It brings together some 30 works of Cecily Brown's career," says ... on view in the first room of the exhibition. Brown says viewing her paintings should be a slow experience, because her work ...
Image Cecily Brown, “Body (after Sickert),” 2022, oil on linen, a riveting, small-scale bedroom scene.Credit...via The Barnes Foundation Her best paintings and drawings take time to see ...
“Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations” is the first solo show by the artist in Philadelphia. This story first appeared on WHYY.org.