Alastair Smart

If you hate art-world show-offs, Grayson Perry, what’s with the frocks?

A review of ‘Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to be Understood’, by Grayson Perry. Perry’s Reith Lectures asked pertinent questions but didn’t bother with serious answers

‘Me as Dorothy’ by Grayson Perry —but what’s with the frocks?

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