Great news. It's a ridiculous award, normally given to complete rubbish, but it is very high profile and it's great for CoC2017
I understand why it gets a lot of grief from the media/public. I went to it last year and admittedly I didn't like a couple of the installations etc, although I found one of them really interesting. Importantly it's alumni include Grayson Perry, Steve Mcqueen director of Hunger and 12 Years A Slave, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley. Some of whom in my opinion are very interesting people who are trying to ask original questions.
I went to the the Tate to see 'The Turner Prize - A Retrospective', where most of the previous winners were on show. I thought most of them were rubbish, but I did quite like a Gilbert & George one and the Damien Hirst animals in formaldehyde stuff was actually quite cool.
I like the Turner Prize because its provocative and challenges people to think about art. Fantastic that its coming to Hull. City of culture we know who we are.
I like Grayson Perry. It was interesting that he was chosen for the Reith Lectures, presumably to challenge thinking.
All the hype concerning the Turner Prize makes me sick. To start with, they took the name of one of Britain's greatest ever artists, Joseph Mallord William Turner, and defaced his name with the 10th rate garbage they display masquerading as art. These charlatans make more money from their trash than Turner ever made with his genius. Talking of making me sick, I may as well display my vomit at the Turner exhibition; on second thoughts, it may win.
