‘Obviously I love the super-rich because they buy my work,” Grayson Perry said in an interview recently. The potter, sculptor and tapestry-maker was explaining that he often finds the wealthy ghastly. One of his pots at his latest exhibition at the Wallace Collection is called What a Wonderful World, about “entitled posh people with their international beige super-wealth and perfectly dusted ornaments”. But the artist is prepared to tolerate them because they pay his bills, fund the museums and keep this country in business. With tariffs threatening a
