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On October 11, 2022, Glenn Brown is opening the Brown Collection, home to the artist’s art collection and administrative offices, as well as three floors of exhibition space, in an exactingly renovated warehouse building in the Marylebone district of London. The inaugural exhibition reveals the breadth of Brown’s oeuvre through a selection of his paintings, drawings, and sculptures, ranging from early appropriations of Frank Auerbach and Jean-Honoré Fragonard to recent layered portraits. In time, works by other historical and contemporary artists that have inspired or that comment on works in the Collection will be exhibited.

During Frieze week, the Collection will be open from Tuesday, October 11, to Sunday, October 16, from 11am to 6pm. The regular hours are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11am to 6pm. 

Every week, in a series called Une oeuvre, un regard, the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris invite a contemporary figure, such as an artist, to select and discuss an artwork from their collection. In this video, Glenn Brown reflects on Odilon Redon’s painting Les yeux clos (Closed Eyes) (1890), which he describes as a very enigmatic work that “draws you in . . . to think about it, not just look at it.”

Glenn Brown was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in Queen Elizabeth II’s 2019 birthday honors list for his service to the arts on November 5. The title CBE is bestowed to individuals who have made distinct and innovative contributions to the United Kingdom.

In this video Glenn Brown discusses the thought process behind his exhibition Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts, which was on view at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 2018. Curated by the artist, together with Laing chief curator Julie Milne, the show featured new works by Brown exhibited alongside paintings and sculptures from the museum’s collection.

On the occasion of his exhibition Glenn Brown: Piaceri Sconosciuti in 2017, the artist talks about his reverence of Florentine art and his decision to have a show at the Museo Stefano Bardini in Florence, Italy.

As part of the Questrom Lecture Series, Glenn Brown speaks about his artistic practice, sharing source materials, which he combines, appropriates, and desconstructs, to create his complex and sensuous works. The presentation is followed by a question-and-answer session with Heidi Zuckerman, director of the Aspen Art Museum, in which the pair discuss how Brown develops his ideas.

Glenn Brown sits down with Bice Curiger, director of Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France, and Ger Luijten, director of Fondation Custodia, Paris, to discuss his exhibition Suffer Well, which was on view at Fondation Vincent van Gogh in 2016.

In this video Glenn Brown speaks with Jeff Fleming, director of the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. The pair discuss Brown’s first museum retrospective in the United States, which was organized by Fleming at the Des Moines Art Center and then traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. The exhibition featured more than thirty paintings, sculptures, and prints by the artist.

In this video, Albert Oehlen and Glenn Brown have a conversation on the occasion of Oehlen’s 2016 exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Filmed inside the gallery, the pair discuss Oehlen’s thought process behind the new aluminum-panel paintings—rendered in various combinations of red, black, blue, and white—in which Oehlen uses treelike forms as vehicles for a methodical deflation of content.

Glenn Brown gives a talk at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, on the occasion of his first exhibition in Canada, held at the city’s Rennie Museum, Glenn Brown and Rebecca Brown Collected Works, on view at the institution in 2013–14.

For this episode of weekly web series TateShots, world renowned forger John Myatt visits the Glenn Brown retrospective at Tate Liverpool. This 2009 video follows Myatt as he discusses Brown’s paintings in the context of the art of appropriation.