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The Drinks Business
10 December 2020 By Eloise Feilden
The Rex Whistler Restaurant inside the Tate Britain gallery in London may never reopen due to claims that the mural commissioned for the space in 1927 is racist and âoffensiveâ.
The Rex Whistler Restaurant at Tate Britain may never reopen due to controversy over its racist mural
As reported by
Art Newspaper, painter Rex Whistlerâs mural, entitled
The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats, was commissioned for the opening of the restaurant in the 1920s by Tate Britain director Charles Aitken.
Categorised as a Grade I listed interior, the Tate must now decide what to do with the controversial mural. The issue came to light after complaints were made to the museum and a petition on change.org describing the artwork as âhorrificâ, got over 7,000 signatures.