Essential Listening: Commonwealth Has Bad Taste

Democracy Has Bad Taste is the commencement of this year's Reith Lectures past times Grayson Perry.  

It is essential listening for all artists as well as those involved inward viewing art, curating art, selling fine art and collecting art.

It's forthwith available to nous to on the BBC Radio Player

I desire to verbalize most the effect of character because I retrieve this is i of the most burning issues simply about fine art – how exercise nosotros tell if something is good?
Grayson Perry

I dear Grayson Perry.  He's my form of contemporary creative mortal - accessible as well as subversive at i as well as the same time!  That's subversive every bit inward maxim what everybody's thinking - fifty-fifty if they daren't tell it out loud inward illustration it harms their careers. One could depict him every bit an intellectual, articulate as well as highly visible version of Banksy.

To deliver an master copy thesis which develops across iv lectures, receive got them subjected to cross-questioning from audiences of hundreds as well as broadcast to millions beyond that, takes intellectual rigour, a bargain of wisdom as well as (always a bonus) a dollop of wit. Grayson has these qualities inward spades.Sue Lawley

I similar the fact that:

• he creates fine art inward what are unremarkably seen every bit unfashionable fine art media - ceramics as well as tapestries
• he exists as well as his fine art is pop despite as well as non because of the fine art establishment
• he became a fellow member of the Royal Academy of Arts and won the Turner Prize  despite beingness inward his ain words aught to a greater extent than than a "transvest*ite potter from Essex"
• he yet resorts to a pencil as well as newspaper as well as drawing inward social club to larn an thought worked out
• he unsettles all the chaps amongst his cross-dressing.  I abide by that females almost universally dear him!
• and finally.....he's i of the most articulate people talking today most art. He makes fine art accessible for really many people.

For me he slices through the cr*p as well as astutely finds novel ways of making his indicate - inward ways which nobody else seems to hold out able to replicate - which tin solely hold out a skillful thing!

I'm quite surprised to hold out hither tonight, because 2 days agone I had a telephone phone telephone bespeak if I would hold out a guess for the Not the Turner Prize. And 2 years agone I was asked past times the Stuckists to wearing clothing every bit a clown as well as come upward as well as hold out on the steps outside, then I am thrilled as well as slightly surprised to hold out here.
Grayson Perry - Winner of the Turner Prize (2003)

Reith Lectures & Grayson Perry - links to related websites

BBC sites

• BBC - Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery - The Images 
• Democracy Has Bad Taste - Video Highlights Watch highlights from the commencement Reith Lecture, recorded at Tate Modern
• Reith Lectures 2013 - Lecture 1 Transcript
• BBC video - Grayson Perry: 'There's an awful lot of guff talked most art' Artist Grayson Perry was commissioned to pull a serial of pictures to illustrate his Reith Lectures on 
• BBC Radio 4. Here he explains what they mean.
• BBC Intellect, Rigour as well as Frocks Read Sue Lawley's spider web log on Reith Lecturer Grayson Perry
• BBC - The Reith Lectures

Reviews

• The Guardian - In praise of … fine art without the hype
• The Observer - Grayson Perry: 'To appreciate fine art you've got to operate at it a bit' The creative mortal on his Reith lectures, working inside the institution – as well as the undercover to enjoying art
• The Telegraph - Gillian Reynolds on Grayson Perry: 'a actually smart guy'
• The Telegraph - Grayson Perry may wearing clothing every bit a adult woman – but he's got the balls to receive got on the ludicrous modern fine art establishment
• The Independent - Grayson Perry: H5N1 really modern artist
• The Independent - Grayson Perry: Damien Hirst's operate is hackneyed as well as tatty
• Financial Times - Grayson Perry's Reith Lectures: Who decides what makes fine art good?
• Huffington Post - Reith Lectures: Grayson Perry To Bertrand Russell, H5N1 Guide For Bluffers

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