Filthy Lucre is an immersive installation by contemporary American artist Darren Waterston, presenting a detailed reimagining of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room – the sumptuous 19th-century dining room once housed just a stone’s throw away from the V&A and now installed at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Waterston has faithfully recreated each of the room’s individual elements with a twist, with the installation revealing a magnificent ruin crumbling under the weight of material decadence and the egos of those involved in its creation. The installation is on display for the first time in the UK.
| Duration | 25 January 2020 - 03 May 2020 |
| Times | Daily: 10.00 – 17.45 Friday: 10.00 – 22.00 |
| Cost | Free |
| Venue | V&A South Kensington |
| Address | Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL |
| Contact | / vanda@vam.ac.uk / www.vam.ac.uk |