Never before did an artist win the Turner Prize with a sound installation. Susan Philipsz was this year's art world favourite to be awarded the prize, and she did. In the Tate report above you can see the artist collecting the prize from Miuccia Prada and give a shout out in her speech to the protesters outside the building: 'Art and education is a right not a privilige and I support the arts against the cuts'. Read the Guardian report here.
You can always bank on the Turner Prize to think of something different when it comes to selecting a winner. So, this year's winner once again provides a stark contrast to some of his more controversial predecessors: Richard Wright (49) is a painter, whose wall paintings are always temporary, skillfully done but most of all things of pure beauty. The video above is an interview (by Tate Channel) with Wright on the occasion of his nomination for the Turner Prize. Read the Guardian report here.
In today’s art, the new has had it. Everything looks professional and serious, even predictable and lethargic. The current popularity of ‘mid-career art’ shows us, says Robert Garnett, the povertisation of the art world, in which the genuinely ‘New’, that which is truly earth-shaking, doesn’t stand a chance.
