Hockney insisted that art is an experiment in seeing, never treating the act of looking as passive, continually adopting whatever helped him see.
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The prize has lost its edge after years of gleefully courting controversy
Britain’s most famous iconoclast presents a show of humour, beauty, and irreverence that reflects the complexities and contradictions in being human.
From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
Critics will say that immersive exhibitions destroy art but Hockney is ready to challenge them with his hour-long show
How the artist found endless variety in the daily view from his bed, cycling through the seasons with kaleidoscopes of light, colour, texture, form and space.
The style and date given for the painted room never sat right with MA Katritzky, who spent lockdown investigating whether the room was actually created by one of Britain’s greatest painters.
This more equitable approach might bring the prize closer to Turner’s original vision of his legacy.
What does Hockey’s auction record for a living artist mean beyond the art market?
Turner Prize’s diverse shortlist has made for a coherent and important show.
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Professor of Art, School of Arts & Creative Industries, Teesside University, Teesside University
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Reader in Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Art History, Loughborough University
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Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Visual Communication, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The Open University
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Head of Art History at University of Sussex, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Fine Art , University of Lincoln
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Lecturer in Art Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh