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The Turner Prize is Britain's most prestigious art prize for modern art:
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Turner Prize 2016: Positive reviews for nominees

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Art critics have given broadly positive reviews to this year's Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain.

This year's winner will be announced in December, but all four nominated works will be on display until January.

In its four-star review, London's Evening Standard said: "The display of work by the four contenders efficiently captures art's current mood."

Mark Hudson in The Telegraph also gave the nominees four stars, but added: "Michelangelo it certainly isn't."

'Confounded and perplexed'

"There's plenty to exasperate the sceptic and give even the most receptive gallery-goer a headache," he added.

"None the less, this is one of the strongest Turner Prize shows in ages."

The Guardian's Adrian Searle said the show was "perhaps the most peculiar and baffling Turner prize show I can remember".

"I haven't enjoyed being so confounded and perplexed in a long time," he added.

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Image captionHelen Marten's work "creates poetic, pictorial puzzles", the Tate said

But Rachel Campbell-Johnston from The Times gave the nominated works two stars, commenting: "This year's Turner display is nothing if not idiosyncratic."

She added the meaning of some of the artworks is not immediately clear when looking at them.

"You have to start with the written explanation and then work out how their objects illustrate their ideas.

"That's why I would like Helen Marten to win, she produces the most visually intriguing pieces of the four candidates."

The Guardian also tips "the inscrutable, endlessly inventive" Marten to win, saying she "makes life feel less bare, more rich, more absorbing".

The BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz said the same, adding that her artworks are "sort of time capsule stories containing an arrangement of clues that help the viewer solve a riddle".

The Turner Prize exhibition is at Tate Britain from 27 September until 8 January 2017.

Turner Prize 2016: Positive reviews for nominees - BBC News

The Tate has just finished an exhibition on the early days of British conceptual art:
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964–1979 - Exhibition at Tate Britain | Tate

This is the most famous/infamous/notorious piece to come out of the UK:

Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII: the most boring controversial artwork ever | Jonathan Jones | Art and design | The Guardian

Here's a good definition or two:
Conceptual art | Tate
Conceptual art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conceptual art - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BBC TV is running a series on it:



BBC Four - Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art?
Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art? BBC Documentary 2016 - YouTube

With a couple of reviews:
Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? review – a daft idea is not art | Television & radio | The Guardian
Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?: an entertaining and thought-provoking look at the outer limits of art

But Yayoi Kusama has to be amongst the most beautiful:


Yayoi Kusama - Exhibition at Tate Modern | Tate
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