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.
Claudia Massie
The greatest artist chronicler of our times: Grayson Perry, at the Edinburgh Art Festival, reviewed
Scotland has no such chronicler. Instead we have the tortured Peter Howson, whose art never wears its distress lightly
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