Hyperallergic's John Yau on Cecily Brown's Rehearsal "It seems to me that this show sets a precedent. Perhaps, because we have been so busy celebrating art that is synonymous with capitalism’s love of material excess and consumption, it would take an artist from another country to change perceptions about drawing with modest means. She may not convince the large swaths of the art world that, in obeisance to the 1% and its love of trophies, are happy to celebrate artists who don’t draw and don’t use their imagination. But for those who care about such things, Brown’s interest in sex and the erotic — often played out in bacchanalian landscapes of lusciously stroked and churned paint — has been a great engine for change in American art, which has long been marked by repression, shame, misogyny, and prudery." On view through December 18 in our Main Gallery. hyperallergic #CecilyBrown Image: detail from Cecily Brown, “Analysis of Beauty (After Hogarth)” (2014), watercolor, ink, and oil on...