Turner Prize
When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery review - how to reduce good art to family funFriday, 09 February 2024
Under the guidance of director Ralph Rugoff, the Hayward Gallery seems hell bent on reducing art to the level of fun for all the family. And as though to prove the point, cretinous captions strip the work of all meaning beyond the banal, while press... Read more... |
Jesse Darling: Virgins review - going straightThursday, 16 November 2023
Self-described ‘intermittent poet’ and 2023 Turner Prize-nominee Jesse Darling said this in a recent interview for Art Review: ‘I think about modernity as a fairytale’. The comparison is made in reference to capitalism’s beginnings, as continuous as... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2023, Towner Eastbourne review - four contestants strike a sombre moodTuesday, 10 October 2023
It’s incredible to think that the Turner Prize has been going for nearly 40 years. It was initially set up to generate interest in contemporary art by sparking debate. Not surprisingly, the media took this as an invitation to stir up controversy by... Read more... |
Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects, Gagosian Gallery review - apocalyptic shedsThursday, 06 May 2021
Sheds have flourished in lockdown: they’ve always been places to escape to and in the past year, when spruced up as home offices, even more so. They’re also emblems of isolation. Poltergeist (main picture) and Doppelganger, the works that... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2016, Tate BritainThursday, 29 September 2016
While the Turner Prize shortlist can reasonably be expected to provide some sense of British art now, the extent to which British art can or should attempt to reflect a view of British life is surely a moot point. Art that is socially or politically... Read more... |
Imagine… Antony Gormley: Being Human, BBC OneWednesday, 04 November 2015
Metal figures on the foreshore of Crosby Beach, Liverpool, set against a sunset, signify the preoccupations of Antony Gormley. The sculptor has been concerned consistently with the human figure, manifested in metal – lead or iron – casts of his own... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2015, Tramway, GlasgowMonday, 05 October 2015
What’s going on? It seems the Turner Prize judges not only ran out of Scots to nominate this year, but actual artists. The socially enterprising architect-design collective Assemble don’t even call themselves artists so what must they make of the... Read more... |
Grayson Perry: Provincial Punk, Turner ContemporaryTuesday, 26 May 2015
Imagine if broadcasters thought the only living pop star worth giving air time to was Lady Gaga. Imagine – the horror. It would be wall-to-wall Gaga for the foreseeable future. And then imagine if the only living contemporary artist commissioning... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2014, Tate BritainTuesday, 30 September 2014
When did Big Ideas make a comeback at the Turner Prize? Did they ever go away? In its 30-year history it seems that everything that wasn’t painting has been labelled “conceptual art”. But we know that labels can be very misleading, and the “... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2013, Ebrington Barracks, Derry-LondonderryWednesday, 30 October 2013
This year, if you don’t live in Ireland, you’ll have to take a plane or a boat to see the Turner Prize exhibition. But the effort will be nicely rewarded, for Derry (or Londonderry/Doire – wherever your affiliations take you) is a beautiful city,... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2013 shortlist: Is David Shrigley an artist? and other thoughtsThursday, 25 April 2013
“Is David Shrigley an artist?,” a journalist asked at Tate Britain’s Turner Prize shortlist announcement this morning. Well, many would say so, though The Arts Desk critic Judith Flanders had her own reservations after seeing his Hayward... Read more... |
Rachel Whiteread: Detached, Gagosian GalleryTuesday, 16 April 2013
When I visited Rachel Whiteread two years ago, there were two old sheds gathering dust in her basement as though waiting to be loved and put to use. Why was she cluttering up her studio with such large and intrusive objects, I wondered? “Things... Read more... |
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