Claudia Massie

The greatest artist chronicler of our times: Grayson Perry, at the Edinburgh Art Festival, reviewed

Scotland has no such chronicler. Instead we have the tortured Peter Howson, whose art never wears its distress lightly

’Sponsored by You’, 2019, by Grayson Perry. © Grayson Perry. Courtesy the artist, Paragon / Contemporary Editions Ltd and Victoria Miro. Photo: Jack Hems
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  • Grayson Perry: Smash Hits; When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65, a Retrospective; Andrew Cranston: Never a Joiner; Jesse Jones: The Tower

    Various venues, Edinburgh

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