{"id":22410,"date":"2025-07-25T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22410\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:19:10","slug":"jeremy-deller-is-inviting-london-to-a-party-it-wont-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22410\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":22411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,14360,388,14361,749,14362,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-22410","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jeremy-deller","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-national-gallery","16":"tag-party","17":"tag-trafalgar-square","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}