Although best known for her bravura large-scale work, for the first time Brown will show a series of jewel-like, small paintings, which she began as a means by which to interpret the role of human ...

“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 ...

“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 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.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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“Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations” is the first solo show by the artist in Philadelphia. This story first appeared on WHYY.org.