Darren Waterston
Subtitle: filthy lucre
By: edited by Susan Cross ; with essays by Susan Cross, Lee Glazer, John Ott
Contributors: Cross, Susan, 1964- editor, author; Glazer, Lee, author; Ott, John, 1971- author; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli; MASS MoCA; Freer Sackler; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY; [North Adams, Massachusetts]; [Washington, DC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780847844135
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Filthy lucre
Description: "Painter Darren Waterston's installation Filthy Lucre--the centerpiece of Uncertain Beauty--is a contemporary re-imagining of James McNeill Whistler's 1876 decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room. Waterston became fascinated with The Peacock Room both for its unrivaled union of painting and architecture and for its dramatic story of patronage and artistic ego."--Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art's website.
Notes: An installation parodying James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, now housed in the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art--cf. page 11.

"Filthy lucre is featured in the exhibition Darren Waterston : Uncertain Beauty on view at MASS MoCA, North Adams,Massachusetts, March 8, 2014 through February 1, 2015. ... On view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 16, 2015 through December 2016."--Colophon.