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“Out of touch and and unempathetic”: artist fury at Perry comments

Liz Hill
1 min read

Artists have reacted angrily to comments by Turner Prize-winner Grayson Perry, who claims a side-effect of Covid-19 will be clearing galleries of “dead wood”. Perry’s comments that “some things needed to go” have been widely condemned at a time when many arts workers are struggling to survive. Perry tweeted that his remarks, made in an interview with Arts Society Magazine, have been taken out of context, and clarified that he was not referring to the loss of people’s jobs and opportunities in the arts.