Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second big award in a month
Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’Helen Marten has sealed her position as one of the...
View ArticleMichael Gove's anti-Turner prize tweets are childish
The former education secretary has dubbed the work of Turner prize winner Helen Marten ‘modish crap’ – and championed his own blinkered version of post-Brexit art historyOh, it quite takes one back to...
View ArticleHow the Turner prize has moved towards gender parity – in data
This year’s winner is only the seventh woman to win Britain’s top art prize in its 32-year history, but an overview of all past winners and judges suggests that imbalance is changingWhen Helen Marten...
View ArticleHelen Marten: the Turner prize winner who took the art world to task
After a year of extraordinary success, Marten has vowed to share her winnings and chastised the industry for its privilegeWalking, according to Helen Marten, is nothing short of an erotic experience,...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on Brexit and the arts: a backlash against the modern |...
The right wants to believe that contemporary art is a liberal-elite conspiracy. Five million visitors to Tate Modern will tell you differentHaving a pop at the absurdities of contemporary art has long...
View ArticleRachel Whiteread: thinking inside the box
Once a key part of a generation of artists who transformed east London, the sculptor talks to Eva Wiseman about doll’s houses, her fellow YBAs, and why she left ShoreditchIt wasn’t just that Rachel...
View ArticleTurner prize: artists over 50 will now be eligible for prestigious award
Artists of any age will be able to participate in Britain’s most prestigious contemporary art prize following rule changeBritain’s most prestigious contemporary art prize is making major rule changes...
View ArticleOlder artists on Turner prize shortlist after it removes upper age limit
Lubaina Himid, Rosalind Nashashibi, Hurvin Anderson and Andrea Büttner earn place on list as contest relaxes rulesA noticeably more mature Turner prize shortlist has been announced after organisers...
View ArticleTurner prize 2017: a cosmopolitan rebuff to Brexit provincialism
Amid all the rule changes, Lubaina Himid is surely the favourite to win British art’s most important prize this year The 2017 Turner prize shortlist is unexpected and refreshing, not least because of...
View ArticleCornelia Parker review – ghosts in the machine
Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square and Soho Square, LondonParker depicts the US presidential race as Halloween nightmare. What will she make of the General Election?Last week, Cornelia Parker was...
View ArticleGallery in JMW Turner's beloved Margate to host 2019 Turner prize
Turner Contemporary, built on site of boarding house artist visited when painting there, announced as exhibition venue The Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate, the seaside town where JMW Turner...
View ArticleChris Ofili agrees to let Union Black fly again after giving flag to the Tate
Turner prizewinning artist’s work returns to LondonThe black, green and red version of the British flag that flew above Tate Britain on the bank of the Thames seven years ago is to return. The artist...
View ArticleFeat of clay: regeneration project bringing Liverpool street to life
Granby Street in Liverpool is a great collaboration between Assemble and the locals. By John-Michael O’SullivanIn old pictures, Liverpool’s Granby Street is a bustling thoroughfare packed with shops –...
View ArticleRachel Whiteread: Turner prize winner criticises 'plop art'
British artist about to get major retrospective at Tate Britain says public art is often ill-conceived and works should suit locationsToo many public sculptures are examples of “plop art” – works...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on outrage and art: the new no longer shocks | Editorial
The fury provoked by Rachel Whiteread 25 years ago is unthinkable today – thank goodnessIn 1993, an artwork by Rachel Whiteread was the subject of the biggest scandal in British art since the notorious...
View ArticleJasper Johns and the Turner prize: this week’s best UK exhibitions
The world’s greatest living artist gets the blockbuster treatment he deserves, while four nominees for the coveted award exhibit their work in HullThe world’s greatest living artist gets the...
View ArticleJasper Johns' hot wax, Big Tom's geometry, and the strangest surrealist ever...
The great America unfurls his flags, targets, maps and beer cans, an old master called Big Tom reveals some weird geometry, and the Turner prize hits Hull – all in your weekly dispatchJasper JohnsThe...
View ArticleLubaina Himid: the Turner prize nominee making black lives visible
The favourite to win this year’s Turner talks about the quest for belonging in her work – and being the oldest artist ever shortlistedI n a tranquil corner of Preston, Lancashire, there is a modest...
View ArticleTurner prize's diverse shortlist 'makes a powerful political statement'
This year’s artists have all taken on political issues, after accusations that the prize was failing to engage with the current climateThis year’s Turner prize makes a powerful political statement with...
View ArticleTurner prize 2017 exhibition review: a snake-infested garden and fat cats on...
Satirical crockery, haircut pinups and jaunty potatoes jostle for the attention, along with pages from the Guardian. But Rosalind Nashashibi should win for her mesmerising films about everyday life in...
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