In Britain, the contemporary artist Grayson Perry is known for his ceramics and tapestries, his writing and lecturing about art, and his cross-dressing as his alter ego, “Claire.” In the U.K., his Channel 4 television program “Grayson’s Art Club,” which showcases works created by untrained art-makers and features celebrity artists and other guests, has been one of the big hits of the pandemic’s long lockdown period. Now it has spawned an exhibition, which our reporter, Sheila Jelfs, traveled to Manchester, in northern England, to see.

Now on view in London, The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show traces the history of female social-political activists’ inventive, influential protest campaigns in the United Kingdom, dating back to the early 1980s, and the vital, leading role that lesbian artists and community builders played in such headline-making events. Cathy Ward, brutjournal’s London-based artist-correspondent, offers an exclusive report.

  Sunny Chapman is an artist based in Brooklyn, in New York City, who bought two fixer-upper houses in a small town in upstate New York to use as a getaway retreat and studio. After settling in, with the seemingly endless pandemic crisis dragging on and on, she also founded a new art gallery — right in the front part of her property, in the tiniest space imaginable. Little art, take wing!

  At the Horse Hospital, an alternative-space arts center in London: The artist Eric Wright’s small-format paintings packed with a sense of epic narrative evoke the aura — and mystery — of the “Ohio Lands.”