{"id":931,"date":"2008-06-18T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2008-06-18T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T23:41:54","slug":"i-heart-grayson-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/i-heart-grayson-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"I Heart Grayson Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything I read about Grayson Perry<\/a> just makes me love him more<\/a> and more<\/a>. When he accepted the Turner prize in 2003, wearing a fantastic lilac frock of his own creation, he said “It’s about time a transvestite potter won the Turner Prize!”<\/p>\n

His views on art and society are refreshingly unpretentious. He is happily married to a psychotherapist with whom he has a 14 year old daughter. His wife Philippa has joked that his obsession with dressing in women’s clothes could be worse…”It could be football!”<\/p>\n

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Here is what he says in one interview:<\/p>\n

“To have men in frocks is disturbing for people, but in fact most of them are straight, hetero people with marriages and kids,” says Perry.<\/p>\n

He says he is horrified by the “spiritual bankruptcy” of modern society, and its focus on appearance. “There is more to attractiveness than who is looking in the mirror. Sexiness is a terrible tyranny.”<\/p>\n

Grayson Perry seems like a funny, gifted, endearing, original thinker who I’d like to add to my list of People To Look Up To.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: \u00a0 Grayson Perry has curated a touring exhibit called Unpopular Culture<\/a>. \u00a0 Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"