Not exact matches
For a start, not many bookies were offering odds that long and, secondly, when you consider the amount of losing bets on punters
who backed Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and all of the
other contenders, it's pretty easy to see why it was the
bookmakers who had the last laugh.
Who knows if
other compensation was paid out in a different way, but
bookmakers, you can now adjust your odds on the Holmby Hills, A. Quincy Jones Brody House sale price accordingly.
The
other nominees for the award are Karla Black, Martin Boyce, and Hilary Lloyd, but Boyce,
who makes sculptural installations that reference urban environments and Modernism, is the
bookmakers» favorite.
The
other shortlisted artists were: Mike Nelson, favourite with
bookmakers to win,
who works with rubbish and exhibited a labyrinth of planks; Richard Billingham,
who exhibited photos and videos of his family, notably his alcoholic father
who lives in a Glasgow slum; and Isaac Julien,
who exhibited short films featuring homosexual cowboys.