Darren Waterston Filthy Lucre Author:Susan Cross, Lee Glazer, John Ott 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 dini... more »ng 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.« less