News Source: Times Online
| 2 months ago
Turner skewered his arch rival John Constable 177 years ago with a wickedly simple act of artistic sabotage involving the last-minute addition of a dollop of red paint. Now history has repeated itself in the battle for the annual contemporary art...
News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 2 months ago
Adrian Searle plunges in and picks his winner Tate curators explain what's behind the artwork in the 2009 Turner prize Link to this video Much is always expected of the Turner prize show, and critics and the public alike give more weight to the...
News Source: The Guardian
| 2 months ago
Lucy Skaer's sperm whale installation, Leviathan Edge (2009), on show at Tate Britain. Photograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features The dust from an atomised passenger-jet engine; freeze-dried cow brain; the skull of a sperm whale; the face of Kenneth...
News Source: The independent
| 2 months ago
Wall markings by Richard Wright from the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain A whale's skull, a heap of dust made up of the remains of a jet engine and a workman's naked backside are among the artworks featuring in a display by this year's...
News Source: The Independent
| 2 months ago
Wall markings by Richard Wright from the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain The job of the Turner Prize jury isn’t just to come up with four lively and upcoming artists. They’ve also got to come up with four reasonably distinct ones. These...
News Source: Times Online
| 2 months ago
As she examines the interplay between the real object and its representation, between the detail and the whole, she encourages the visitor to peer, pry and peep. Her contribution may feel decidedly bitty, but as you puzzle and ponder and try to put...