Why do you go to galleries? Is it because you like to keep up with what's going on in the arts? Because a poster caught your eye? Because of something someone said on Twitter? Or because you want to satisfy yourself that you're cleverer than the latest "celebrity charlatan?"
Grayson Perry, one of Britain's leading contemporary artists, is under no illusion as to why people go to museums -- the first piece in his new show at the British Museum is, he admits, "me getting my revenge in first."
The work, "You Are Here," is a pot in the Turner Prize-winning ceramicist's distinctive style, covered in figures explaining the worthy, and not so worthy, motivations behind their visit to the show.
Cheeky, yes, and full of Perry's quirky sense of fun, but like the rest of the "Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman" exhibition, it is also a love letter to museums and galleries in general -- and to one in particular: The British Museum.
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