Sentences with phrase «controversial art awards»

British artist Richard Wright was named this week the winner of this year's Turner Prize, one of the world's most controversial art awards, for his enormous gold - leaf fresco.

Lubaina Himid has won the 2017 Turner Prize, Britain's most high - profile and often most controversial art award.

The 1997 Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious and controversial art award, recently grabbed the headlines again.

Simon Starling, an installation artist who dismantled a shed and rode its pieces down the Rhine River before putting it back together again, has won the Turner Prize, Britain's most controversial art award.

A Water Shed Moment for Turner Prize The Washington Post; December 6, 2005; 467 words... putting it back together again, has won the Turner Prize, Britain's most controversial art award... seaside town where she spent her honeymoon.

Turner Prize 1997 The 1997 Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious and controversial art award, recently grabbed the headlines again.

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However, controversial or not the Turner Prize has helped foster interest in contemporary art, particularly British, and is recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for art in Europe.

Critics worried that the founders» decisions to name the prize after J.M.W. Turner, a radical painter in his day, signaled their intention to award controversial art, and they did just that.

YEAR INSTITUTED: 1984 WHY IT»S IMPORTANT: As the most publicized art award in the U.K., the career - making Turner Prize has been controversial since its inception, and established itself as a lightning rod for conservative critics when the 1986 prize went to Gilbert & George (read an interview with them here).

In light of the Museum of Modern Art's recent controversial decision to demolish the award - winning Folk Art Museum on 53rd Street, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the fears were justified.

The UK's most prestigious - and controversial - modern art award was launched today amid protests by photographers and artists alike.

(Tracey Emin's My Bed in Turner Prize competition)(Brief Article) Insight on the News; January 31, 2000; Goode, Stephen; 378 words... exhibition of young British artists at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among whose controversial works is Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin... culture, as one of the chief contenders for this year's Turner Prize, the highest of British an awards.

THE Glasgow artist shortlisted for the most prestigious, and controversial, award in contemporary art thinks he has «zero chance of winning».

Gordon, 30, won the controversial award for work including... judges» chairman Nicholas Serota commended the former Glasgow School of Art student's «engagement with profound issues of memory...

The UK's most prestigious and controversial modern art award was launched today, amid protests by photographers and artists alike.

A prestigious annual art award, the Turner Prize, created in 1984, was named in Turner's honour, but has become increasingly controversial, having promoted art which has no apparent connection with Turner's.

Lubaina Himid, 63, on Tuesday became the oldest winner of the Turner Prize, Britain «s most prestigious yet controversial visual art award, for her works celebrating black creativity.

Turner prize work that could bear fruit; Controversial transvestite on shortlist for (pounds) 20,000 award The Herald; May 30, 2003; Phil Miller Arts Correspondent; 700 + words... line for the Turner Prize.

The Turner Prize is arguably Europe's most prestigious, and controversial, contemporary visual art award.

Bookies» favourite wins Turner Prize The Scotsman; December 9, 2002; KAREN MCVEIGH; 700 + words THE Turner Prize, the most prestigious and controversial award in the art world... of 24 ethnographic sculptures holding McDonald's food by Jake and Dinos Chapman - for which Mr Saatchi paid GBP 1 million last month - was passed...

Sound artist Susan Philipsz, whose melancholy song loops were first exhibited in secret riverside walkways in Glasgow, wins Britain's most esteemed and controversial modern art award.

YOU know it is a different year at the art world's most controversial annual award when regular critics can not summon the outrage to protest anymore.

For the third year in a row, WhiteBox partnered with the Richard J. Massey Foundation to present their Arts and Humanities Award to an artist who has engaged society on levels beyond museum walls, raising important and controversial issues in our contemporary politics.

(Tracey Emin's My Bed in Turner Prize competition)(Brief Article) Insight on the News; January 31, 2000; Goode, Stephen; 378 words... Brooklyn Museum of Art, among whose controversial works is Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary — created from paint, elephant dung... culture, as one of the chief contenders for this year's Turner Prize, the highest of British an awards.

Bookies» favourite wins Turner Prize The Scotsman; December 9, 2002; KAREN MCVEIGH; 700 + words THE Turner Prize, the most prestigious and controversial award in the art world... calling card on the comments board deriding the works as «cold, mechanical, conceptual bulls ***».

German - born artist Tomma Abts has become the first woman painter since 1997 to land the Turner Prize, one of the art world's most controversial awards.