Grayson Perry – potter, transvestite, Turner Prize laureate, Reith lecturer and cultural commentator – began his four-part examination of human rites of passage (including birth, coming of age, and marriage) at what most people would consider the end of life, with death. In fact, as he made clear, the funerary rites are, or should be, a celebration of life.
23 August 2018, The Tablet
Grayson Perry examines death with intelligence and sensitivity
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