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An Evening with Cecily Brown

Join artist Cecily Brown and Met curator Adam Eaker for a conversation about Brown’s engagement with art history, influences from The Met collection, and her own singular artistic practice.

Join artist Cecily Brown and Met curator Adam Eaker for a conversation about Brown’s engagement with art history, influences from The Met collection, and her own singular artistic practice. Ian Alteveer, Aaron I. Fleischman Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met, introduces the evening. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, the first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York City.

On view April 4th through December 3rd, 2023.

The exhibition is made possible by The Modern Circle and Agnes Gund.

Additional support is provided by Neuberger Berman Private Wealth, the Jeffrey and Leslie Fischer Family Foundation, and Barbara and John Vogelstein.

The catalogue is made possible by The Modern Circle.

Additional support is provided by the Forman Family Foundation, Liza Mauer and Andrew Sheiner, Paula Cooper Gallery, and Thomas Dane Gallery.

© 2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art


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Adam Eaker
Associate Curator, Department of European Paintings

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