Join art advisor and Reading the Art World host, Megan Fox Kelly, for an in-depth interview with the Paul Mellon Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Courtney J. Martin. In this episode, they discuss Cecily Brown, one of the most influential painters of our time. The 2020 book, Cecily Brown, is the first major monograph about the British-born, New York-based artist who rose to prominence in the late 1990s. Through a range of references to old master paintings, Abstract Expressionism, and popular culture, Brown's symbolic language, exuberant brushwork, rich palette, intense energy, and embrace of the erotic have redefined some of painting's historical canons.
Purchase “Cecily Brown" by Courtney J. Martin at Phaidon.
Music composed by Bob Golden.