Turner Prize

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From the rise of sculpture to the return of landmark art events, three frieze editors discuss the year in art



 

At Alison Jacques, London, the Turner Prize-nominated artist recasts Caribbean flora and quotidian objects as symbols of interconnectedness and care

BY Salena Barry |

Kareem Reid on how the group’s Turner Prize nomination conflicts with the B.O.S.S community-oriented aims

BY Kareem Reid |

As the prestigious award announces a shortlist comprised of artist collectives, Juliet Jacques reflects on UK government funding cuts to the arts after more than a decade of austerity

BY Juliet Jacques |

This year, all the shortlisted artists were named joint winners – what to make of this act of (institutionally approved) subversion?

BY Tom Morton |

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani fill Margate’s Turner Contemporary with imagined communities and cities

BY Juliet Jacques |

Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Anish Kapoor, Gillian Wearing and Mark Wallinger have co-signed a letter addressed to the gallery’s director

BY Frieze News Desk |

Institutional incorrectness aside, the 2019 shortlist is an exciting, politically-charged collection of artists

BY Chris Sharratt |

This year’s nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani

BY Frieze News Desk |

From Charlotte Prodger’s Turner Prize win to Glasgow School of Art’s gutted Mackintosh building, a sometimes fraught and rarely dull year in Scotland

BY Chris Sharratt |

The artist used her acceptance speech to emphasize the importance of public funding for the arts

In further news: Activists protest Luke Willis Thompson at Turner Prize exhibition opening; Helena Almeida (1934–2018)

Leftist histories, state violence and the cracking open of time: can a ‘mere’ competition, and publicity exercise, also speak truth to power?

BY En Liang Khong |

Yorkshire residents complain that the concrete sculpture of a ‘Nissen hut’ will attract excrement, vandalism and litter

Why critics of colour matter, how Marvel erases narrative closure, and life after the dreaded 0.0 Pitchfork review: what to read this weekend

A juror for the award last year, Dan Fox on why the Turner Prize is and always will be political (whatever that means)

BY Dan Fox |

Forensic Architecture, Naeem Mohaiemen, Charlotte Prodger and Luke Willis Thompson are this year’s nominees

Her work animates the consequences of our colonial history and the construction of identity politics: in a divided Britain, will we listen?

BY David Osbaldeston |

Malcolm Morley on soldiers, style and painting Jasper Johns

Experts share their highlights of the art avaiable via Allied Editions at Frieze London 2017, starting at £85