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# Is the Art World Disengaged "With the Real World"?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/is-the-art-world-disengaged-with-the-real-world/
- Published: 2011-10-25T14:25:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:31.000Z
- Description: According to BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15436961], the former Turner prize-winner Grayson Perry has called the art establishment disengaged "with the real world."
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Grayson Perry, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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A photo of Grayson Perry demonstrating how fully engaged he is with the "real world" (via flickr.com/richardzinho)

According to [BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15436961?ref=hyperallergic.com), the 2003 Turner prize-winner Grayson Perry has called the art establishment disengaged “with the real world.” And then he adds, “There is no popular wing to it.” But wait, he’s not done yet. He’s also dismissive of the art world in general. “I have a pot called Boring Cool People,” he said. “It’s decorated with pictures of the sort of people who go to contemporary art galleries.”

Perry is not the sort of artist you’d expect to be selfconscious about connecting with the “real world” considering his bright campy antics, ceramic vases and cross-dressing seem perfect at home in the art world. Btw, did you see the [butt part](http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelnel7/4983483146/?ref=hyperallergic.com) of the outfit he’s wearing?