Darren Waterston : filthy lucre
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Darren Waterston : filthy lucre
Skira Rizzoli , MASS MoCA , Freer Sackler, the Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art, 2014
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Darren Waterston: uncertain beauty
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue of the exhibition held at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, Mar. 8, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015
Exhibition title: Darren Waterston: uncertain beauty
"Darren Waterston: filthy lucre is on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 16, 2015 through December 2016."--Colophon
Biographies: p. 122-123
Includes bibliographical references
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Inspired by James McNeill Whistler's famous Peacock Room, contemporary painter Darren Waterston creates his own decadent interpretation in a major installation at MASS MoCA. Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre is a contemporary reimagining of James McNeill Whistler's decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room-originally a dining room in the London mansion of shipping magnate Frederick Leyland. In 1876 and 1877, Whistler transformed the space with painted leather walls, gilded shutters, and a ceiling reflecting the coppery golds and brilliant blues of a peacock's plumage. Waterston reconstructs the historical room as a sumptuous ruin, replete with reinterpretations of Whistler's paintings and 250 hand-painted vessels. This title features all-new photography of Whistler's and Waterston's rooms, accompanied by essays by their curators and a scholar of patronage.
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