{"id":488754,"date":"2026-05-17T05:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/488754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:20:18","slug":"whistler-calls-the-shots-on-tate-exhibition-100-years-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/488754\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistler calls the shots on Tate exhibition, 100 years after his death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tasked with the interior modelling, Whistler transformed the room, painting gold-leaf peacocks on the walls to complement his own artwork over the porcelains. The changes led to a dispute with Leyland and Whistler was sacked.<\/p>\n

The Tate has reproduced the room, with the same green vinyl adorning the walls. However, the porcelains on display will not be real antiques.<\/p>\n

The Tate\u2019s show, titled simply James McNeill Whistler, will feature a set of the painter\u2019s Nocturnes, a series of nighttime landscapes.<\/p>\n

One of these is ordinarily held in the Treaty Room of the White House, but Melania Trump<\/a>, the US first lady, announced in April that the work, originally given to John F Kennedy in 1962, would be lent to the UK for the first time.<\/p>\n

Also on display in the UK for the first time in 20 years will be Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1, better known as Whistler\u2019s Mother<\/a>, which is owned by the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay in Paris.<\/p>\n

One of the world\u2019s best-known paintings, it was central to the plot of the 1997 comedy Bean, in which Mr Bean accidentally defaces the masterpiece and secretly replaces it with a poster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasked with the interior modelling, Whistler transformed the room, painting gold-leaf peacocks on the walls to complement his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,966,19,17,5,38555,1702,213274,25384,14177],"class_list":{"0":"post-488754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-exhibitions","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-paintings","20":"tag-standard","21":"tag-sunday-telegraph-news","22":"tag-tate-britain","23":"tag-uk-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116588237601189551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}