Margate gallery blacks out window as it hosts Turner shortlist artists
Turner Contemporary showing works by four artists in running including Oscar Murillo canvasA breathtaking view of the North Sea that captivated and inspired JMW Turner and led to the creation of a...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on the Turner prize: hopes and fears | Editorial
In its snapshot of art now, the show offers a lens through which to see our troubled worldOn Saturday the 2019 Turner prize exhibition opens at the appropriately named Turner Contemporary in Margate....
View ArticleSilence or death: Turner finalist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on recreating a...
Saydnaya prison is a black hole of abuse where inmates are forced into silence on pain of death. The artist reveals how his library of sound effects helped survivors recount their shocking storiesThree...
View ArticleTurner prize awarded four ways after artists' plea to judges
All four nominees asked judges to recognise ‘commonality, multiplicity and solidarity’‘Good for them!’ – subverting the Turner prize is what artists are meant to doAll four artists shortlisted for the...
View Article'Good for them!' – subverting the Turner prize is what artists are meant to do
Losers have sulked and even attacked people with gladioli. But the four shortlisted artists’ decision to share this year’s winnings could be the upset to end them allTurner prize awarded fourways after...
View Article'It's about solidarity': the artists who hijacked the Turner prize speak out
They asked to be judged as a collective – so all four shortlisted artists won. They explain how our toxic political climate made them take a stand against individualismThe idea came to them in June....
View ArticlePoliticians can learn from Turner prize togetherness | Letters
Readers respond after all four artists shortlisted for the 2019 Turner prize were named winnersMy first reaction to the news that the Turner prize would be divided four ways was that it was bit of a...
View ArticleAll deserve prizes? That’s no truer in art (including the Booker and Turner...
If we salute everyone, then we risk rewarding no one, writes a judge for next year’s Women’s Prize for FictionApparently it’s now terribly unfashionable to be a winner. At last week’s Turner prize, the...
View ArticleWill the BBC's Berlin Wall podcast hit lead to a more informal Radio 4?
The gripping Tunnel 29 is on 3 million downloads and counting, Tom Stoppard’s new play is his most personal - and the Turner prize gets wokeLaunched this autumn, Tunnel 29 has become the most unlikely...
View ArticleArtists assemble! How collectives took over the art world
They’re principled, they’re powerful and they make the art world jumpy. As the Turner prize is split four ways, we look at how collectives are shaking things upLast week, the four artists shortlisted...
View ArticleTurner prize cancelled and chosen artists to get £10k bursaries
Tate Britain says timetable to prepare autumn exhibition not achievable during pandemicOrganisers of the Turner prize have cancelled this year’s edition and will instead award 10 bursaries of £10,000...
View ArticleTate Britain announces recipients of £10,000 Turner bursaries
Cash awards given to 10 artists who would have been in the running for cancelled 2020 prizeA “fantastic and exciting” list of ten artists who would all have been in the running for this year’s Turner...
View ArticleCoventry to host Turner prize in city of culture year in 2021
City’s bid is ‘glimmer of hope’ for UK arts sector amid Covid crisis, says creative directorCoventry will host the Turner prize, a south Asian film festival and a music festival curated by the...
View ArticleBrutal Bacon, wild Gehry and unmissable Abramovic: 2021's best art,...
Rodin, Bacon and Eileen Agar will be big, but Abramovic’s art attack could eclipse them all. Plus Frank Gehry unleashes a tornado and Helen Levitt shows how street photography should be doneContinue...
View ArticleFive art collectives shortlisted for Turner prize
As few artists have been able to show publicly, judges focus on continuing collaborative workFive art collectives will this year battle it out for the Turner prize, the first time no individual artist...
View ArticleCollective nominated for Turner prize criticises award’s main sponsor
Black Obsidian Sound System criticises Tate over handling of sexual abuse claim and recent redundanciesOne of this year’s Turner prize nominees has criticised the award’s main sponsor, Tate, for its...
View ArticleFrom Cézanne to surrealism: Tate unveils 2022 programme
Other exhibitions include Cornelia Parker, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth and the Turner prize A globe-spanning surrealism survey, a Cornelia Parker retrospective and a blockbuster Cézanne exhibition...
View ArticleCuts to art subjects funding ‘walk us back 60 years’, says artist Helen Cammock
UK’s decision to slash subsidy is designed to stifle criticism from artists, Turner prize winner saysThe Turner prize-winning artist Helen Cammock has condemned the government’s decision to halve...
View ArticleA shared Olympic gold defeats the ‘one champion’ narrative | Rhiannon Lucy...
By suggesting they both win, Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi have helped to upturn preconceptions about success“Can we have two golds?” Mutaz Barshim of Qatar’s words during the men’s high jump...
View ArticleFrom Hokusai to Himid: the unmissable art and architecture of autumn 2021
Hokusai explodes into Britain, Sebastião Salgado paddles up the Amazon, Lubaina Himid gets a retrospective – and an eccentric postmodern bath finally opens to the publicContinue reading...
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