Summary
British critics, a notoriously curmudgeonly lot, like to show that they aren't easily impressed, even by bravura paintwork and international sales. Consequently, a couple of the broadsheets consider she has been over-hyped, though Richard Dorment in the Telegraph calls her work 'dazzling' and Jackie Wullschlager in the FT thinks that 'for sheer painterly verve' this is 'the most interesting show by a living artist in England this year'.
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Great Expectations
Cecily Brown: Paintings Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, until 28 August
There has been a great deal of media coverage of this exhibition of new paintings by Cecily Brown (born 1969) at the curiously named Modern Art Oxford. (It's actually an Arts Council-funded public gallery. ) Brown, though a Londoner, has live...See the full content of this document
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