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‘World champion of appropriation’ Grayson Perry says he isn’t bothered by AI using his work

Celebrated artist says AI is not very good yet, ‘so don’t worry’, in comments made at Charleston literature festival

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry: ‘Of course I love the super-rich – they buy my work!’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: On the eve of a new exhibition, the artist talks to Geordie Greig about his alter ego ‘Claire’, surviving emotional abuse and why when he looks at exquisite Sèvres china, he thinks ‘Eastbourne charity shop’

The Independent UK

October design news: a teeny tiny toffee, rag rugs and $1 watches

Sculptors take part in the 10gram Challenge, arty Instagram and creative director Ramdane Touhami’s textiles

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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 Independent UK

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 Conversation

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 Week

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

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Artist Grayson Perry is planning a musical about his colourful life

“We’ve written 14 or 15 songs already” Perry has said

Evening Standard

Outfits designed for Grayson Perry’s alter ego Claire up for auction

Online sale includes 39 pieces made for artist by Central Saint Martins students including Mimi Wade

The Guardian - UK

The great Coronapause is over, but history tells us that complacency can be a killer

Just as in the flu pandemic of the 19th century, waves of infections in the US and Portugal should remind us that Covid shows no signs of going away

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry, God, and a teddy named Measles sum up UK life in the Covid era

A work by the award-winning artist forms part of an exhibition about the pandemic at the Science Museum in London

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