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Nnena Kalu’s win shows how contemporary art can be more inclusive if more facilitation, like that provided by ActionSpace, can be supported.
The prize has lost its edge after years of gleefully courting controversy
From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
This more equitable approach might bring the prize closer to Turner’s original vision of his legacy.
Why are we so surprised that artists are also demanding changes to the way prizes are awarded?
Turner Prize’s diverse shortlist has made for a coherent and important show.
Was setting fire to all that money immoral waste, ritual sacrifice or artistic statement?
A sense of renewal and purpose in the prize sparked by a lifting of the age limit and looking beyond London.
Helen Marten, this year’s winner, has revealed a sense of something progressive and pioneering.
Perhaps the “art” label designates Assemble and the Granby project as outsiders, unique, creating something that can’t be replicated.
Shortlisted for the Turner in 1997, Christine Borland discusses the suffocating nature of the prize and its shortsighted attempts to branch out.
Duncan Campbell has won the 2014 Turner Prize. This is a well-deserved accolade for an extraordinary work (although I preferred Tris Vonna-Mitchell for many reasons, maybe a yearning for that clunking…
Earlier this year, Turner Prize nominee Duncan Campbell said that in making films he attempts to find what the writer Samuel Beckett termed “a form that accommodates the mess”. It is exactly this search…
In 1973, Marcel Duchamp said: “Art is not about itself, but the attention we bring to it.” This is something that this year’s Turner Prize shortlist brings to the fore. The shortlisted artists all have…
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