In its current Artists’ Issue and during Frieze Week The Art Newspaper presents a piece by Grayson Perry
“My first art fair was at Olympia in west London in 1986, which was a seemingly innocent occasion compared with nowadays; closer to the village hall than to Art Basel. I was showing with James Birch, ….”
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/the-art-fair-as-a-rite-of-passage
Grayson Perry CBE RA is an English contemporary artist. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles”. [Wikipedia]
Eloquent and funny he is a splendid source when looking for (self-) critique of today’s art world.
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