Letter: Perhaps the Tate has a duty to retain Richard Wright's beautiful golden fresco, despite the artist's legitimate concerns for ephemerality and memory
Jonathan Jones: We don't rubbish the Booker shortlist, or demand that it should be banned – yet we do when it comes to the Turner prize. Why?
October 2009
Turner prize 2009
There's both substance and skill to this year's Turner prize show, says Laura Cumming
Jonathan Jones on art
The Turner prize reveals art critics at their best
Jonathan Jones:They get bad press in the art world, but newspaper critics possess incredible skill – as reviews of the Turner prize exhibition demonstrate
Arts diary
Faux pas at the Turner prize show
One curator accidentally let her true feelings show at Tate Britain, reports Charlotte Higgins
