Tate Britain Addresses the "Most Amusing Room in Europe's" Racist Imagery

Tate Britain's Rex Whistler Restaurant is covered floor to ceiling in a specially commissioned mural from the 1920s titled The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats. As guests dine in this luxurious restaurant, images of child slavery surround them. The mural, created by British artist Rex Whistler, depicts white people towing Black children with chains around their necks and Chinese figures that the museum says "suggest caricature." This is the venue that is called the "most amusing restaurant in...