They’re re-playing the 2013 Reith Lectures by @Alan_Measles on @BBCRadio4 right now. Hearing Grayson Perry questioning whether what he repeatedly called “Aborigine Art” is, ahem, art was shockingly offensive.

So I had to go back and listen again to what I heard Grayson Perry say about Indigenous Australian art in this Reith lecture. I just happened to catch a few mins of it when Radio 4 broadcast it this evening, but couldn't quite believe what was said (1/6) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03dsk4d

In this crisis @BBCRadio4 are repeating quite a bit of culture programming for #quarantineculture. For many in the museum sector this is an opportunity for reflection on how much has changed in the past decade—how some worldviews have aged, not least about "world cultures" (2/6)

Six and a half years on this section was a surprise. The lecture is "Beating the Bounds", his second Reith Lecture (22 October 2013), and it's essentially about gatekeeping the art world: the old topics of What Is Art? Who Is An Artist? And so on (3/6)

I just transcribed the text. Perry discusses the Eddie Burrup affair and the work of Indigenous artists in the context of the excellent 2013 @royalacademy exhibition Australia. Here Indigenous artists are denied both the status of artists, and even of being "contemporary"! (4/6)

It was a shock to hear 19th-century anthropological tropes of Indigenous people living in the past, and their art not really art, refracted in a Reith Lecture by a @britishmuseum Trustee—even in 2013 out of step with the great @royalacademy curation https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/australia (5/6)

Radio 4's #quarantineculture programming will give museums & curators unexpected time and space to reflect on how the changing world around us is totally reframing our practice. How will the upcoming repeats of #HistoryoftheWorldin100Objects sound 2nd time round? We'll see. (6/6)