“… the Royal Academy, which felt, even as recently as last year, almost 250 years old rather than almost 250 years young, needed a jokey, mad-cap iconoclast like Perry to overturn the furniture. And that’s exactly what he has done…
These works feel as if they belong to our world, to the world of our current concerns. They no longer appear to be teaching us yawn-inducing lessons about what art was like back then, and how good all that had been.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/royal-academy-summer-exhibition-review-art-grayson-perry-anselm-kiefer-a8384556.html
“… the Royal Academy, which felt, even as recently as last year, almost 250 years old rather than almost 250 years young, needed a jokey, mad-cap iconoclast like Perry to overturn the furniture. And that’s exactly what he has done…
These works feel as if they belong to our world, to the world of our current concerns. They no longer appear to be teaching us yawn-inducing lessons about what art was like back then, and how good all that had been.”