It's almost impossible to pick one track from the close-stitched tapestry that is Astral Weeks, where every song – excepting, perhaps, the smooth swing of The Way Young Lovers Do – makes persuasive claim to being a masterpiece.
"I'm making ten tapestries," Close explained, "priced at a hundred thousand dollars apiece, ten large prints at fifty thousand, forty medium-sized ones at twenty-five two hundrednd two hundred small ones at five thousand".
In the intimate space of the Foundling Museum ,Perry's tapestries loom close, so that you seem to meet the men and women walking through them – as you do with Hogarth's series.
In the hall of Art of the Americas, redone in bright purples and yellows, people leaned against the new plexiglass cases to get closer to the ancient tapestry with the dancing llamas and the big wooden spoon with the skull in it.
The museum also presented some 21 exhibitions, including "The Age of Rembrandt," which included the museum's entire collection of Dutch paintings and attracted 505,082 visitors by the time it closed on Sunday, and "Tapestry in the Baroque," drawing on collections from more than 15 countries.
Take a closer look at the tapestry.
Of all species naturally exposed to BSE, the greater kudu, perhaps the exotic unicorn's closest relative on the tapestry scene, appears most susceptible (8 ).
The app includes close-up photographs of each tapestry, as well as commentaries from Perry, an essay on the making of the works, and links to Channel 4's All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry TV series, for which they were originally commissioned.
If the Ulster Museum is too far to visit, fans worldwide can get an up close and personal look at the tapestry by visiting Ireland's tourism website.
The resulting music video weaves together inspirations as diverse as spiritual symbolism and color theory into a continuous, evolving tapestry of swelling instrumentals, closing books, and opening doors.
The tapestries were made by the Stephens Tapestry Studio in Johannesburg, in close consultation with Mr. Kentridge.
