Retail Therapy?

ArtInfo.com – By Sarah Douglas

London – Considering all the talk about recession aesthetics these days, cross-dressing 2003 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry may have hit a nerve. Perry, resplendent in a colorful, milkmaid-style costume he designed himself (“My Jesus dress,” he called it, and indeed it featured a set of large baby-blue buttons representing the Crucifixion), was on hand at Victoria Miro Gallery yesterday to present his latest effort, the sprawling Walthamstow Tapestry, which pictures the seven stages of man as, in Perry’s words, “one long shopping trip.”