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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 | History Defined

Slow down. Stay offline. Be bored

In time, restlessness gives way to new thinking, as artists from Anish Kapoor to Grayson Perry have attested

The Guardian - UK

Five non-foodie pop-ups in London this August

Forget the food for a moment, here’s the best of what else in town this August

Evening Standard

Sotheby's summer show: creatives from Grayson Perry to Bella Freud on the art event celebrating London

To celebrate a new exhibition at Sotheby’s, art and design leaders pick their favourite works from a mix of masterpieces and reveal why they think London inspires so many artists

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Nigella Lawson calls time on canapés

The domestic goddess was holding court at a book launch in Fitzrovia

Evening Standard

Grayson Perry: the artist who became the muse

A new book including never-before-seen portraits of the artist has been published

Evening Standard

What to do if you get a monster energy bill as Grayson Perry challenges EDF

Former BBC journalist Jon Sopel was also presented with a monthly energy bill many times more than the previous one

Evening Standard

Sir Grayson Perry ‘freaked out’ by EDF bill as £2,500 taken from bank account

The 63-year-old wrote on social media on Monday that EDF had raised his monthly electricity bill from £300 to £39,000

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Sir Grayson Perry says energy firm EDF raised electricity bill from £300 to £39,000

The Turner Prize-winning artist hit out at energy firm EDF on social media

Evening Standard

Grayson Perry challenges electricity bill rise from £300 to £39,000 a month

Turner prize-winning artist joined on X by broadcaster Jon Sopel a fellow EDF customer, who complained of being asked for £18,000

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry: 'my audience is the well-educated left-leaning middle classes. So I make them suffer for that'

The acclaimed artist, writer and TV star is touring a new one-man show. He talks about not chasing laughs, the car-crash of current politics and developing a musical about his life

Evening Standard

Is the towel skirt really the latest fashion trend?

Balenciaga has launched a £695 skirt that is … just a towel. Is this high fashion? Using much lower budgets, we try to find out

The Guardian - UK

Podcasts and Aperol? How common! Nicky Haslam unveils his 2023 guide to Great British snobbery

Interior designer Haslam has shared his definitive guide to separating the wheat from the chaff

The Independent UK

My cultural day out on the Sussex Art Shuttle

With next week’s Turner prize opening in Eastbourne, we try a hop-on, hop-off bus service that takes art lovers around the area’s cultural hotspots

The Guardian - UK

How misusing words can even change their dictionary definitions

Coruscating was originally a sparkling synonym, but now we understand that it’s something more scathing

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Grayson Perry channels his inner Bob Dylan with music video

The artist laments middle-class guilt in a musical remake

The Week

Book now: 20 must-see exhibitions in the UK

The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 September 2023, Tate…

The Guardian - UK

Scottish Women Artists; Grayson Perry: Smash Hits – review

A brilliant exhibition showcases 250 years of female Scottish painters, while quantity sometimes trumps quality in Grayson Perry’s biggest show yet

The Guardian - UK

Duet with a doppelganger: Edinburgh fringe dances to a different tune

The festival’s Dance Base hosts eclectic performances involving a wondrous paper sculpture, an examination of duality and Bach reimagined

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Edinburgh Art Festival 2023: from bog dancing to binge drinking

What to see at Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, championing women and queer artists, whether exploring Scottish bogland on film or casting hedonism in ceramic

The Independent UK

Grayson Perry on popularity, pottery and class: ‘I still enjoy looking for discomfort in the faces of the overeducated’

The Turner Prize-winning artist talks to Mark Hudson about why art shouldn’t feel like homework, why he used to have a ‘screwed up’ relationship with art dealers, and his new retrospective ‘Smash Hits’

The Conversation

Grayson Perry: exploring what it is to be human with humour, irreverence and excess

Smash Hits, the new Grayson Perry retrospective at Edinburgh’s National Galleries, spans the 40-year career of the recently knighted artist. It’s an exhibition packed with scrutiny of the entanglements of self and society, as Perry casts up snippets of the institutional landscapes that formed him: family, England, the art world.

The Week

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits review

Grayson Perry is arguably the most famous artist working in Britain today, said BBC Scotland. Since the 1980s, he has gone “from taking pottery evening classes to winning the Turner Prize”, and presenting programmes on Channel 4. He is now held in high esteem by both the art establishment and…

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry’s art knows no borders

Brief letters: Englishness in Edinburgh | Yorkshire puddings | Jane Birkin v ’Allo ’Allo! | Jogging

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits review – English self-mockery without insight or depth

National Galleries of Scotland, EdinburghThis is a show stuffed with clutter and haunted by Perry’s teddy bear, with works that are too flip to land any satirical punches

The Guardian - UK

The best of Grayson Perry, a chicken and egg situation and Black erasure – the week in art

The artist takes his smash hits to Edinburgh, a tiny sculpture garden opens and Gary Simmons traces racial history

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