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Turner prize 2006

March 2009

  • Rebecca Warren: Journey Into The Heart of the Night (detail)

    Feat of clay

    Adrian Searle is beguiled by the lumpy sculptures and dirty jokes of shortlisted Turner prize 2006 candidate, Rebecca Warren

  • Reviews roundup: Turner prize

    The biggest fuss over this year's Turner prize, today's papers seem to agree, is that there isn't all that much. Stuck for headlines after years of pickling, pots and sputtering lightbulbs, subeditors go straight to the facts of the case. "TURNER PRIZE JUDGES OPT FOR PAINTER OVER CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS", says the Independent; "AND THIS YEAR'S TURNER WINNER IS ... A PAINTER", sputters the Times; "TURNER PRIZE GOES TO PAINTER ... NO IRONY INTENDED", whimpers the Telegraph.

  • Charlotte Higgins on culture
    What a swell arty

    The Turner prize ceremony is a great opportunity to watch the art world at play. They’re very good at it.
  • Art & design blog
    An unlikely yet thoroughly deserving winner

    In a low-key year, Tomma Abts identified a disquieting, atmospheric and fugitive painted place.

  • Waiting nearly over for Turner prize artists

  • Turner prize is won by a painter ... and a woman

November 2006

  • I find 'change your life' reality TV shows compulsive viewing - after all, they taught me how to live

    Mark Ravenhill
    Mark Ravenhill: It's been a tough two weeks for reality TV. On our screens, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here has finally turned into Lord of the Flies. Jan Leeming, we discover, has all the self-awareness and wit of The Good Life's Margo Leadbetter.
  • Jonathan Jones

    The rise of the stunt artist

    Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones: Phil Collins' artwork on reality TV victims may seem to attack celebrity culture - but that's exactly what he's turning the Turner prize into.

    • The tales of television betrayal the Turner nominee is transforming into art

    • Art & design blog
      This year's Turner a prize bore

    • For whom the bells toll: Turner winner Creed unveils his Caribbean clangers

October 2006

  • Painting triumphs again

  • Car batteries, clay nipples, reality TV and a glimpse of the future

  • Tate unveils latest contenders for modern art's annual punch-up

  • How I suffered for art's sake

July 2006

  • Turner prize moves north for 2007

    The Tate has confirmed that the Turner prize will be presented at Tate Liverpool next year, abandoning its traditional base at Tate Britain in London.

May 2006

  • Not so shocking - and there's even a painter

    Turner prize shortlist is short on controversy, though it does include disco-dancing Palestinians.
  • Critic's view

    Adrian Searle

    Adrian Searle gives his verdict on the four Turner prize candidate artists.

  • Video, sculpture, installation and painting vie for 2006 Turner prize

    This year's Turner prize contenders include an artist best known for filming a Ramallah dance marathon and a sculptor whose grotesque, bulbous works are often crafted out of twigs, clay and dust.

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