Speaking on the state of contemporary art, Grayson Perry has called the majority of contemporary art “rubbish.” Speaking during the inaugural Radio 4 Reith Lecture, Perry began by discussing his own appeal as an artist. “Although we live in an era where anything can be art, not everything is art. I think the art world is happy to dig down into the lower regions of society for a bit of gritty reality, but what it’s frightened of is the middle classes with good taste, often. Maybe I appeal to too many of those people.” He continued: “At any one moment most of the art being made is awful.”Read more at The Independent
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Grayson Perry Calls Contemporary Art “Rubbish”