London’s Tate Britain hosts Turner Prize 2010
One of the world’s most renowned and cutting-edge art exhibitions is opening at Tate Britain, London, on 5 October. Since 1984, the annual Turner Prize has always aimed to “celebrate new developments in contemporary British art”. For “celebrate”, read “create controversy”— and it certainly has. It has caught the world’s imagination and made the headlines for its sometimes downright dubious ideas on what constitutes art.
Entries in the past have included Damien Hirst’s Mother and Child, Divided in 1995, featuring a cow and calf in separate tanks filled with formaldehyde. Tracey Emin’s equally infamous My Bed in 1999 was literally her slept-in bed complete with grubby, unmade sheets and discarded clothes. This year does not fail to disappoint with Angela de la Cruz’s Stuck, an unusual draping/stuffing of a black canvas into a doorway.
TopThingsToDo’s London HQ hosts alternative Turner Prize
So we at TopThingsToDo.co.uk have decided we could perhaps do better by creating our own would-be Turner Prize contenders, which certainly push the boundaries of creativity… Could they constitute art? Decide for yourself. Click on the gallery images to the right for details.
The four short-listed artworks for the Turner Prize 2010 appear at Tate Britain, 5 Oct – 3 Jan 2010.
