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Grayson Perry: exploring what it is to be human with humour, irreverence and excess

Grayson Perry: exploring what it is to be human with humour, irreverence and excess: Smash Hits, the new Grayson Perry retrospective at Edinburgh’s National Galleries, spans the 40-year career of the recently knighted artist. It’s an exhibition packed with scrutiny of the entanglements of self and society, as Perry casts up snippets of the institutional …

Shrek at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence

Shrek at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence: While Pixar’s groundbreaking Toy Story often achieves plaudits for the shot in the arm it gave Hollywood animation in the mid-1990s, it’s impossible to ignore the influence of DreamWorks’ 2001 computer-animated hit Shrek. The grubbier and more sarcastic sibling to Woody …