Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised art award. The award represents all media.

As of 2004, the monetary award was established at £40,000. There have been different sponsors, including Channel 4 television and Gordon's Gin. The prize has been awarded by various distinguished celebrities: in 2006 this was Yoko Ono, and in 2012 the award was presented by Jude Law.

It is a controversial event, mainly for the exhibits, such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst and My Bed, a dishevelled bed by Tracey Emin. Controversy has also come from other directions, including a Culture Minister (Kim Howells) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour (Madonna) swearing, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir Nicholas Serota (about the purchase of a trustee's work).

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Playoff preview: High school football postseason starts Friday night

News Leader - Staunton 14 Nov 2024
2 Turner Ashby (10-0) ... Turner Ashby High School, 800 N ... Staunton 28, Turner Ashby 27 (2019) ... But, as one of our reporters asked me when the playoff seedings were released, "So Staunton's prize for having such a good season is 10-0 Turner Ashby! C'mon." ... Turner Ashby has outscored its ......
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Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

AOL 12 Nov 2024
The Turner prize winner Mark Wallinger told the Guardian that Auerbach was an “enormously important and influential figure” in the art world and a “truly great, significant painter who followed his dedication and vision right up to the end” ... Sean Scully, who has twice been nominated for a Turner prize, said....
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Four new films to see this week

The Irish Times 10 Nov 2024
Blitz ★★★☆☆. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Elliott Heffernan, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham. 12A cert, gen release, 121 min ... The director’s pedigree as a Turner Prize-winning visual artist ensures that every shot is aesthetically pleasing ... Full review TB. Paddington in Peru ★★★★☆ ... ....
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This old thing? Prince William steps out in second-hand look

The Times/The Sunday Times 08 Nov 2024
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon ... Just ask William, who stepped out to present the Earthshot prize in Cape Town on Wednesday evening in a pair of sparkling £130 biodegradable trainers from the brand Purified — and a second-hand blazer ... Sarah Turner. Prince William meets activists in Cape Town for Earthshot prize ... ....
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A Spanish drunkard, exploding punks and a Renaissance showdown – the week in art

AOL 08 Nov 2024
Exhibition of the week. The Great Mughals. This exhibition is both beautiful and lucid in its introduction to the aesthete rulers who built the Taj Mahal. • V&A, London, from 9 November to 5 MayAlso showing. Everlyn Nicodemus ... Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael. Put your money on Leonardo in this restaging of the Turner prize of the High Renaissance ... ....
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Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama

The Irish Times 07 Nov 2024
Blitz.     . Director. 12A. Genre. Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Elliott Heffernan, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Erin Kellyman. Running Time. 2 hrs 1 min ... McQueen’s pedigree as a Turner Prize-winning visual artist ensures that every shot is as aesthetically pleasing as it is authentic. READ MORE ... Kind of weird. ....
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Nicola Coughlan wins Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year 2024 award for television acting

The Irish Times 06 Nov 2024
Author Dame Jilly Cooper received the writer prize for “her extraordinary half-century contribution to literature” from Poldark actor Aidan Turner, ......
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Turner Prize winner to open new digital arts building in Nottingham (Nottingham Trent University)

Public Technologies 06 Nov 2024
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) received the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2021 for cultural heritage science research. It is the second time that NTU has been bestowed the honour of receiving a Queen's Anniversary Prize for its research, the ......
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Victoria Beckham thanks daughter Harper for presenting her with award

AOL 06 Nov 2024
Victoria Beckham has thanked her daughter Harper for awarding her a prize at the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year 2024 awards ... Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan received the television actress prize, while Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner took home the performance award....
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Nicola Coughlan wins Harper's Bazaar award

RTE 05 Nov 2024
The Galway native and Derry Girls and Bridgerton star won the television actress prize, while Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner took home the performance award ... Author Jilly Cooper received the writer prize for "her ... Aidan Turner presented Jilly Cooper with the author prize....
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Victoria Beckham given a women of the year prize by daughter Harper

AOL 05 Nov 2024
Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan got the television actress prize, while Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner took home ......
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Turner Center Student Spotlight: Kreea Chakraborty speaks on writing as an art and skill

The Valdosta Daily Times 05 Nov 2024
By Turner Center Art Education Administrator H ... VALDOSTA — Kreea Chakraborty has participated and placed in three of the Turner Center’s AnnualArt of Writing” Contests. Each contest awards $2,500 in cash prizes and the opportunity to be published to regional middle and high school students for works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry....
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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael review – bitchy Da Vinci conquers the army of gnarly nudes

The Observer 05 Nov 2024
Art is a serious subject,” say posters put up by the Royal Academy in London to champion art in schools ... Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael ... View image in fullscreen ... No ... The show’s insistence on treating him as a third contestant in the Renaissance Turner prize is nonsense ... Turner prize also-ran? Raphael’s David, after Michelangelo Buonarroti, c 1505-08....

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