Who could mistake this rubbish bin for art? – The Daily Mail and The Turner Prize
The Daily Mail’s coverage of The Turner Prize is almost an event in itself and this year their article’s headline epitomises everything I find fun about their coverage. It typifies how tabloidesque newspapers sell articles on contemporary art to their centre-right conservative readership.
Here are of some highlight quotes and comments from this years articles:
Who could mistake this rubbish bin for art? It must be the Turner Prize judges as winner is announced
via Daily Mail
- “There are no prizes for guessing which competition this piece of, erm, art won yesterday.”
- “They included a room full of screwed up paper and a video of a floorboard.”
- “Despite its scruffy appearance, judges for the £25,000 prize said this winning piece had a ‘new sense of poetry’”
- “I’ve seen better bins hanging on lamp posts and standing in lay bys.” - Susie Roberts, Coventry
- “To think I struggle to try to draw and paint, when all I can do is just crumple some paper up and call it a ridculous name. I’ll be nominated for the Turner sometime, just you wait.” - Claire, Dundee
- “A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” - Holly, England
- “I do not understand how reasonably intelligent and articulate art critics and commentators can be so utterly shallow and sycophantic in a free society…… These ‘critics’ would have felt right at home within the totalitarian art establishment behind the iron curtain, serving any master for a priviledged existence.” - Paul H, London
- “If advertisers and shops are penalized for misrepresentation surly someone could sue these idiots.” - Rich S, Middlesbrough
- Mentions of the phrase “emperor’s new clothes” – 13
The Turner Prize launches in Newcastle… but what will visitors make of Karla Black’s plastic bag sculptures?
via Daily Mail
