Visual Art: Shock - It's not a load of rubbish Turner Prize 2000 Tate Britain, London

The Independent - London | October 29, 2000| | Copyright

October again: long nights, hearty soups, that familiar ache behind the eyes that comes from thinking about the Turner Prize. Can a competition that whittles down an entire year's worth of art- making to a single winner really tell us anything useful about our times? Or is the whole thing merely a media beanfeast, creating a school of mediagenic art like Saturn vomiting up his children? Does the ceremony, filmed like the Oscars and funded by a television channel, reward work or shape it? It's the kind of thing to exercise a broody art critic in the dark watches of the night.

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