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On Tuesday, Tate Modern announced the four nominees for the 2015 Turner Prize: multidisciplinary artist Bonnie Camplin, sound and performance artist Janice Kerbel, sculpture, installation, and collage artist Nicole Wermers, and the architecture collective Assemble.
Books
Grayson Perry's Playing to the Gallery is presented as a beginner’s guide to the machinations of the art world, though it also holds a mirror up to the so-called “certainty freaks” — members of the art world who have an axe to grind or are stubbornly set in their beliefs.
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The 2014 Turner Prize was awarded this evening to the Glasgow, Scotland–based artist Duncan Campbell, for his film "It For Others" (2013).
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It's that time of year again — when the British art world picks up with excitement, expectation, and eye rolling over the announcement of the annual Turner Prize nominees. The contenders for this year, the award's 30th anniversary, are Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards, and Tris Vonna-
Art
NOTTINGHAM, U.K. — Seeing both notebook and pen, a fellow spectator says with some disbelief: “Are you reviewing this? Well, good luck!” My challenges are well apparent, thanks to the inexplicable outbreaks of dance, song and puppetry.
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French video and installation artist Laure Prouvost has been announced as the winner of the Tate's Turner Prize, given this year in Londonderry, UK.
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We round up the Turner Prize shortlist (Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost, and David Shrigley) and turn it over to you. Who do you think should win?
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The Turner Prize this year held surprisingly little controversy — the artists nominated were recognizable names that made relatively sanguine work, from Paul Noble's microscopic, hand-drawn imagined worlds to Luke Fowler's biographical documentaries.
Opinion
Here comes the one moment every year when we put a microscope up to the British art world. The Turner Prize, that annual award competition that christens one contemporary British artist as the leading light of the scene, just opened its 2012 exhibition.
Opinion
I have trouble getting excited by the Turner Prize anymore. British art isn't as central to the art dialogue as it once was a decade ago so it is feeling more and more like a regional contest. Congrats to Martin Boyce anyway. You can read more on BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-160
Opinion
The 2010 Turner Prize was announced last night, and Susan Philipsz was named the winner (against betting company William Hill’s unlikely odds of 16/5). Her piece, "Lowlands Away" (2010), has been much ballyhooed as the first sound installation to win the award for UK artists under the age of 50. The
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Last year, when they announced this ridiculous thing called the Rob Pruitt Awards I thought it was a joke: the justification was that it was conceived as a performance-based art work. Come on, give me a break, we're not idiots. First off, an artist slapping his or her name on an award is just bizarr