Cecily Brown’s canvases brim with eros. Seamlessly blending abstraction and figuration, she paints what is almost there. Is that a hand? A foot? An ear? A breast? For the first time since her relocation from London to New York, she is the subject of a museum survey in her new home city. “Death and the Maid” includes 50 paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes that comment on human vanity and the brevity of life. —Clara Molot