Cecily Brown, born in 1969, is a British painter known for her large-scale, gestural paintings that blur the lines between figuration and abstraction. Born in London, Brown moved to New York in ...

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 accompanied ...

Curated by Ian Alteveer, “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” spans 25 years and focuses on the themes of beauty and death. Many works relate to others in the Met’s collection.

I could argue that Cecily Brown has become a better painter. But really it’s the often mysterious expansion of my own taste that we’re talking about here. With luck, you learn to see more and ...

Cecily Brown during the press preview at the Barnes Foundation. Photo: Elisa Carollo for Observer. The retrospective, on view through May 25, intentionally avoids a linear narrative.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations is the first exhibition to fully explore the pioneering British-American artist's work through the lens of its groundbreaking reconfiguration of cultural politics.