Turner prize

The best Turner Prize in years

4 October 2025 9:00 am

So, the Turner Prize: where do we start? It’s Britain’s most prestigious art award, one that used to mean something…

Turner Prize shortlist

22 May 2021 9:00 am

In 2019 I was asked to be on the jury for the Turner Prize. I was pretty happy about this.…

Art or propaganda? Wolfgang Tillmans’ pro-EU poster for the 2016 referendum

For many artists being propagandists has become their raison d’être

9 March 2019 9:00 am

If you want to lose friends and alienate people in the art world, try telling them you support Britain leaving…

Hanging offence

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Modern Scottish Men, a new exhibition celebrating the achievements of male artists in the 20th century, opens next month in…

This is England

30 May 2015 9:00 am

At the Turner Prize dinner of 2003, as the winner, Grayson Perry, took a photo call with his family wearing…

‘Winter Landscape (Winterlandschaft)’, 1970, by Anselm Kiefer

From the sublime to the ridiculous

11 October 2014 9:00 am

In the Royal Academy’s courtyard are two large glass cases or vitrines containing model submarines. In one the sea has…

Oscar syndrome

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Awards ceremonies grow ever sillier and more self-important