Turner Prize
Turner Prize Shortlist Announced
Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga, and Cathy Wilkes are the artists in the running to win the Turner Prize, the same honor Damien Hirst so controversially won in 1995, according to Artforum. The Turner is awarded annually to a British artist under the age of 50 and has been handed out since 1984. But the prize lost a bit of its prestige to some critics when Mr. Hirst won. Conservative politician Norman Tebbit wrote in the Sun: "Have they gone stark raving mad? The works of the "artist" are lumps of dead animals. There are thousands of young artists who didn't get a look in, presumably because their work was too attractive to sane people. Modern art experts never learn." read more »
