Grayson Perry : Born Risky

56 year old Grayson Perry CBE RA is a Turner Award winning artist who in 2008  was ranked number 32 in The Telegraph’s list of the “100 most powerful people in British culture“. Perry has also carved himself out quite career on British TV as a commentator on not only the society’s class divides but also … Continue reading

Grayson Perry : The Vanity of Small Differences

  Grayson Perry is a Turner Prize-winning English contemporary artist, writer, and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries[ as well as his observations of the contemporary art scene, and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles“.  He is also one of the country’s most famous inhibited crossdressers. His new exhibition currently touring … Continue reading

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Have no great expectations of Mike Newell’s new much abridged version of Charles Dicken’s classic story but you will  at least get a real visual treat that Oscar nominated cinematographer John Mathieson has created here with his dramatically lit sweeping landscapes. Of all the previous 18 + times this story has been brought to the big and … Continue reading

Great Expectations ………for Great Expectations

  Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens the greatest author of the Victorian era.  This is his penultimate completed novel and it depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip.  It.s a coming-of-age story with themes of wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil, and was an enormous … Continue reading

Great Freedom : one man’s story about being imprisoned in Germany for decades for being gay

    Germany’s pernicious Paragraph 1675, was part of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime, and in early revisions, the provision also criminalized bestiality as well as forms of prostitution and underage sexual abuse. All in all, around 140,000 men were convicted under the … Continue reading

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