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

Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to be Understood Grayson Perry

Particular Books, pp.144, £14.99, ISBN: 9781846148576

At the time it was all too easy to get sucked in by the hype. In 2013, Grayson Perry was the first visual artist ever to give the Reith Lectures and — unlike so many of his dry, earnest predecessors — here was a speaker ready to fulfil all three Reithian aims: to inform, educate and entertain.

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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

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