This year’s nominees include a sculptor, a photographer and an artist who created a 31-foot statue of a dollop of whipped cream, with a fly on it.
Tag: Turner Prize
‘Social Detonator’: In Artist’s Work, and Life, Different Classes Collide
Oscar Murillo, a Colombian-born painter raised in London, considers it an “infiltration” when his class-conscious canvases wind up on the walls of collectors.
Turner Prize Goes to Array Collective, an Art Protest Group
The Belfast-based Array Collective stages carnivalesque interventions at political rallies. Now the group has won Britain’s major art award.
Your Friday Briefing
A French rush for boosters.
The Turner Prize Goes to … All 4 Shortlisted Artists
The artists, who included Oscar Murillo, asked to be considered as a group to make a statement on political unity. The judges agreed.