The Upper Room (paintings)

For other uses of "Upper Room", see Upper Room (disambiguation).
The Upper Room by Chris Ofili.

The Upper Room is an installation of 13 paintings of rhesus macaque monkeys by English artist Chris Ofili in a specially-designed room. It was bought by the Tate gallery in 2005 from the Victoria Miro Gallery and was the cause of a media furore[1] after a campaign initiated by the Stuckist art group[1] as Ofili was on the board of Tate trustees at the time of the purchase. In 2006 the Charity Commission censured the Tate for the purchase, but did not revoke it.

  1. ^ a b O'Keeffe, Alice. "How Ageing Art Punks Got Stuck into Tate's Serota", The Observer, 11 December 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2008