Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1998, Cecily Brown made a painting of ecstatic bodies dissolving into blurry flesh-hued abstraction called ...
Walking into Cecily Brown’s survey show at the Met is a relief. Not because the paintings are particularly idyllic—they contain skulls, fragmented figures and lurking cats—but because they feel ...
New York’s spring auctions are expected to fetch at least $1.7 billion amid redoubled collector confidence in art values.
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, slithery ...