{"id":288264,"date":"2025-07-24T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288264\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:50:26","slug":"jeremy-deller-is-inviting-london-to-a-party-it-wont-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288264\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Deller is inviting London to a party it won&#8217;t forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Deller is walking rapidly through the English painting room at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/showbiz\/celebrity-news\/national-gallery-french-london-paris-trafalgar-square-b1237177.html\" title=\"National Gallery exhibition to shine a light on works of Renoir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Gallery,<\/a> past the aristocratic portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, before he settles in front of a William Hogarth set called Marriage A-la-Mode (1743-45), which charts the ups and downs \u2014 mostly downs \u2014 of an ill-matched society couple. It\u2019s all drunkenness, party aftermaths, slumped syphilitic society figures, diseased faces, the buttocks of an adulterous man fleeing out of a window, a disgraced woman downing laudanum. \u201cThis,\u201d says Deller, gesturing to the other paintings, \u201cis how we want to be seen, but Hogarth paints people as they really are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Deller is walking rapidly through the English painting room at the National Gallery, past the aristocratic portraits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,107637,257,7584,5487,29067,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-jeremy-deller","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-national-gallery","14":"tag-party","15":"tag-trafalgar-square","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114909008562302682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}