Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations opens at the Barnes, Philadelphia, Sunday 9 March 2025.

Organised by the Barnes and the Dallas Museum of Art, Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations is the first exhibition to fully explore the artist’s work through the lens of its groundbreaking reconfiguration of cultural politics. This major mid-career retrospective brings together more than 30 paintings and related drawings from across three decades of Brown’s career.

Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations is co-curated by Simonetta Fraquelli, consultant curator for the Barnes, and Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations
9 March–25 May 2025

The Barnes Foundation
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia
PA 19130

Curators in Conversation: Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations
Sunday 9 March 2025, 1–2pm EST

With exhibition curator Simonetta Fraquelli and Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes. This event will also be livestreamed online.