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10 days ago

Dolls 'salvaged' from thrift shops, VHS tape sculptures and war trauma paintings: The four artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize are revealed

Announced today at Tate Britain - on what would have JMW Turner's 250th birthday - the shortlist has attracted criticism for failing to be revolutionary in the same way as previous years.

An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year’s Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

Holy balls of wool! From pointless paintings to emotionless snapshots, the once-controversial award tiptoes too earnestly across the minefield of today’s culture wars

Remember when controversy was fun…

14 days ago

Why JMW Turner is still Britain’s best artist, 250 years on

The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist befor…

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