Last month, I attended the Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Shortly after, I also attended the exhibit's Birds of a Feather Gala. Gillian Anderson was in attendance to support her dear friend, Darren Waterson.
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery bring together artists and art lovers, philanthropists and diplomats, cultural and business leaders, and young professionals for a sumptuous evening to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre and to benefit the museums' American Art Endowment.
At Flock Together, the gala after-party, guests start their extraordinary evening at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with a champagne reception hosted by the Silk Road Society. There, they enjoy an exclusive preview of Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre, on public view for the first time in Washington. The dazzling event continues when guests “flock together” at the after-party held in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. Into the night guests enjoy drinks, a dessert buffet, and dancing with a special performance by BETTY, the rock band that composed and recorded the mesmerizing soundscape for Filthy Lucre.
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery bring together artists and art lovers, philanthropists and diplomats, cultural and business leaders, and young professionals for a sumptuous evening to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre and to benefit the museums' American Art Endowment.
At Flock Together, the gala after-party, guests start their extraordinary evening at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with a champagne reception hosted by the Silk Road Society. There, they enjoy an exclusive preview of Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre, on public view for the first time in Washington. The dazzling event continues when guests “flock together” at the after-party held in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. Into the night guests enjoy drinks, a dessert buffet, and dancing with a special performance by BETTY, the rock band that composed and recorded the mesmerizing soundscape for Filthy Lucre.
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.
During the eighteen-month run of Peacock Room REMIX, a series of related installations are presented in conjunction with Filthy Lucre. First on view are Whistler’s portraits of the Leyland family and Waterston’s preparatory studies for his installation (May 16 to early January 2016). A second phase, The Lost Symphony: Whistler and the Perfection of Art (January to May 2016), highlights the history of a painting Leyland commissioned for the Peacock Room but Whistler never completed. Chinamania (June to January 2017) explores the enduring craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the West.
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.
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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