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The artist laments middle-class guilt in a musical remake

The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 September 2023, Tate…

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.

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…

Brief letters: Englishness in Edinburgh | Yorkshire puddings | Jane Birkin v ’Allo ’Allo! | Jogging

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

The artist takes his smash hits to Edinburgh, a tiny sculpture garden opens and Gary Simmons traces racial history

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

UK capital as ‘huge generator of wealth’ under threat as a third of visual artists struggle to pay for studios