HERE’S a silver lining to some Covid-19 clouds. The Holburne Museum in Bath will survive as a result of a cash injection from a successful crowdfunding campaign and it has cautiously reopened its doors to the public with the critically acclaimed exhibition Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years.

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Perry was the first ceramicist to win the Turner Prize in 2003 and his earliest forays as “the transvestite potter” reintroduces the explosive and creative works he made between 1982 and 1994. A subversive by choice and nature — and a supporter of Corbyn’s Labour — he compulsively scratches at British “prejudices, fashions and foibles.”