Black shirt elitists of the art world - by Howells

The Scotsman | December 10, 2002| | Copyright

CULTURE minister Kim Howells relaunched his scathing attack on the Turner Prize yesterday, describing its judges as black-wearing elites who talk in "psychobabble".

He said that the competition, which was won by Keith Tyson on Sunday, had been overrun by self-serving colonists of the "incomprehensible classes". Mr Howells, an art school graduate, said he had received a ground-swell of support since proclaiming last month that the shortlisted entries were "conceptual bullshit".

"I have had well over 400 letters," he said. "Half of them have been from practising artists, of all sorts. All of ...

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