Don’t miss this opportunity to see the Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre before it closes on June 4!

A "DC event you should go to…" –Washingtonian

"Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre is the Peacock Room on acid"–Vogue

Filthy Lucre, an immersive installation by painter Darren Waterston, reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room—an icon of American art—as a decadent ruin collapsing under the weight of its own creative excess. Forging a link between inventive and destructive forces, Filthy Lucre forms the centerpiece of an unprecedented exhibition that highlights the complicated tensions between art and money, ego and patronage, and acts of creative expression in the nineteenth century and today.
The final companion installation, Chinamania, features work by contemporary ceramic sculptor Walter McConnell and explores the enduring craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the West. It is also on view through June 4, 2017.

"a dark, alternative story of the clash between art and commerce"–Washington Post

"If the original Peacock Room can seem dream-like, this other room is a nightmare, a mad relation locked in the basement, the untamed id of the stately room upstairs."–Intelligent Life Magazine

"Behind the fright-house effect of Filthy Lucre lies something more profound" –Fine Art Connoisseur

Peacock Room REMIX is organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Darren Waterston’s installation Filthy Lucre, 2013–14, was created by the artist in collaboration with MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.

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I set out to recreate Whistler’s fabled Peacock Room in a state of decadent demolition—a space collapsing in on itself, heavy with its own excess and tumultuous history. I imagined it as . . . a vision of both discord and beauty, the once-extravagant interior warped, ruptured.
Darren Waterston

"Disheveled, apocalyptic" –Wall Street Journal

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