And the Turner Prize 2013 nominees are in! The prize, organized by the Tate Gallery, is “UK’s most prestigious contemporary art award,” according to Tate.org. The winner gets $38,000 and everyone else on the shortlist gets $8,000. Also, This year, David Fucking Shrigley has been nominated. Also, these people:
The nominees are: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for “Extracts and Verses” at Chisenhale Gallery for paintings (pffft); Laure Prouvost for Wantee commissioned with Grizedale Arts at Tate Britain and her installation for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (mkay); and Tino Sehgal for This Variation at documenta (XIII) and These Associations at Tate Modern — relational aesthetics, performance, conceptual stuff (ok ok ok fine). But fuck those guys.
DAVID SHIRGLEY was nominated for his Hayward Gallery show “Brain Activity.” Win win win win win win win win I love you win win win win.
For Munich's public art project A Space Called Public, Turner Prize 2013 nominee David Shirgley has been invited to create "outdoor artistic interventions" within the city. And so, Shrigley is creating a shrine to Michael Jackson's beloved pet monkey Bubbles. The proposed shrine will sit not far from an existing monument to the "King of…
The artist Tino Sehgal is widely known for his one-time social encounters, producing an artwork that only occupies space and time in the process. These works are often referred to by Seghal as "constructed situations" and are not exactly the type of thing you usually see occupying the booths of…
British-born Tino Sehgal -- the artist behind this year's much talked about manga-inspired piece at the Frieze Art Fair -- just won the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Bienniale. The award, essentially the equivalent of an artist receiving an Academy Award, is quite an impressive achievement for an artist who not only prohibits the photography of his work, but sells much of his "constructed…
