A floor-to-ceiling mural at a British restaurant has been labeled “offensive” by an ethics committee.
The mural, which is about one hundred years old, was painted by Rex Whistler when he was twenty-three-years-old.
The mural scene depicts enslaved children and caricatures of Chinese persons on “The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats,” as the artwork is entitled.
The mural was Whistler’s attempt to narrate the grand adventures people of old had to go on in order to source foods and goods from exotic parts of the world.
