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Exhibitions

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

2 September 2023

9:00 AM

2 September 2023

9:00 AM

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

The busiest show in Edinburgh must be Grayson Perry: Smash Hits which, a month into its run, still has people queuing at 10 a.m. His original title, National Treasure, was rejected because ‘national’ is a politically loaded term in Scotland. But Perry’s lens is resolutely fixed on England and Englishness.

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