Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid opens today at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

The first full-breadth museum survey in New York of the internationally acclaimed artist, Cecily Brown, the exhibition highlights the significant contributions of this important New York-based painter from across her 25-year career and in the city she has called home for three decades. The tightly themed show unites some 50 paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes — many never before seen in New York and several recently completed — to focus on Brown’s enduring and intertwining themes of still life, memento mori, mirroring, and vanitas. 

Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid

Exhibition dates: 4 April–3 December 2023 

The Met Fifth Avenue

1000 5th Ave

New York

NY 10028

The closing date for Cecily Brown, ‘The Triumph of Death’ at Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte has been extended until 30 September 2022.

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
Via Miano 2
Naples
 

Cecily Brown, The Triumph of Death

at Capodimonte

Exhibition dates: 10 February - 1 May 2022 

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte

Via Miano 2
Naples

Tonight, Cecily Brown will be in conversation with Deputy Head of The Courtauld and Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art Barnaby Wright, and Leyla Bumbra, The Courtauld’s Research Forum Programme Manager.

The event is part of Open Courtauld Hour and will allow an insight into Brown’s motivations and inspirations, as well as the process behind her large-scale painting, Unmoored from her reflection (2021), which was installed at the top of The Courtauld’s 18th century staircase last year.

Thursday 27 January, 8pm CET

 'Unmoored from her reflection' is installed at the top of The Courtauld’s historic staircase, which leads to the Great Room, where masterpieces from the Gallery's collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings are displayed. The ambitious work was commissioned as part of The Courtauld's most significant modernisation project in its history, and references works in the Gallery's world-renowned collection.

We are pleased to announce that Cecily Brown’s 'There’ll be bluebirds', has sold for £3.5 million to benefit global environmental charity ClientEarth in Christie’s 20th/21st Century Sale in London.

The work was generously donated by Cecily Brown and launches the Artists for ClientEarth series, organised by Gallery Climate Coalition together with Christie’s in support of ClientEarth.

ClientEarth approaches the climate crisis in a unique and systemic way, by using the law to challenge industries, corporations and governments that are involved in the most polluting activities. The GCC and Christie’s have come together with ClientEarth to raise money, awareness and support from the art world for this essential work through the Artists for ClientEarth initiative.

Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel
Stand: R17

Showing works by Lynda Benglis, Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Patricia Leite, Albert Oehlen, Dana Schutz, Amie Siegel and Caragh Thuring.

Preview: 20 - 23 September
Public days: 24 - 26 September

A work by Cecily Brown will be placed for auction in Christie’s 20th / 21st Century marquee sales later this year as part of ‘Artists for ClientEarth’, a landmark new collaborate initiative designed to propel the art world in the fight against climate change. 

Gallery Climate Coalition has joined forces with member and patron  Christie's to raise money, awareness and support for the essential environmental work of ClientEarth.

Cecily Brown’s ‘There’ll be bluebirds’ (2019) will be the first work offered in this series, raising funds directly in support of ClientEarth.

A new large-scale painting by Cecily Brown will go on display in November 2021 as part of The Courtauld Gallery’s most significant modernisation project in its history. 

The work has been specially commissioned for the curved wall of the historic 18th century staircase, and will reflect Cecily Brown’s deep interest in the paintings in the Gallery’s collection. 

The commission revisits the early history of the building. In the 18th century a painting by Giovanni Battista Cipriani occupied this same location when this part of Somerset House was home to the Royal Academy of Arts.  

The commission has been supported by The Garcia Family Foundation.

Pictured: The Courtauld at Somerset House. Photo: Benedict Johnson