Turner prize 2014

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• Why is political art such elitist twaddle?

  17 Oct 2014: Jonathan Jones: Radical artists are always keen to make a statement; just look at this year’s Turner prize crop. But their work needs to engage with humanity, otherwise it’s just elitist masturbation

• 'It's a moment in thought, not a conclusion' – Turner prize 2014 nominee Duncan Campbell explains his work

  Video (4min 56sec), 10 Oct 2014:

  Duncan Campbell was nominated for a film, It For Others, which draws on a huge library of archive footage to look at a host of complex histories: the IRA, African art, and the language of advertising. He shows how his work came together

• 'Chance encounters – that's when it's interesting': Turner prize 2014 nominee Ciara Phillips explains her work

  Video (3min 27sec), 9 Oct 2014:

  Ciara Phillips set up a workshop and invited artists to come and collaborate – the result is a series of bright screenprints, but also a sense of shared inspiration. She explains how the project came together

• Turner prize 2014 review – Duncan Campbell stands out from the crowd

  5 Oct 2014: The Irish film-maker offers the only real subtlety in a show dominated by long-form videos, writes Laura Cumming

• 'The voice belongs but the body is gone': Turner prize 2014 nominee Tris Vonna-Michell explains his work

  Video (4min 08sec), 3 Oct 2014:

  Using the precarious analogue technology of slide projectors, paired with his own recorded voice, Tris Vonna-Michell creates poignantly fractured travelogues that have won him a Turner prize nomination. Here he explains his work in more detail

• 'It's about owning images – and disorientating them': Turner prize 2014 nominee James Richards explains his work

  Video (3min 37sec), 1 Oct 2014:

  In the first of a series following 2014's Turner prize nominees at work in their studios, James Richards talks us through his 'abstract sculpture' which takes in film, sound and photography in a disquieting whole – from sources like submerged cameras and censored Japanese library books

• Shoot the jury, not the painter - what the Guardian thought about the first Turner prize

  30 Sep 2014: 10 November 1984: Malcolm Morley is an undeserving winner, and the prize is in danger of becoming a ‘razzmatazz show-business knees-up’, says Waldemar Januszczak, Guardian art critic

• The Turner prize show: voices, videos and erotic tickling sticks

  29 Sep 2014: Jonathan Jones: Has the Turner prize lost its power to shock? No – thanks to James Richards’s sphincter shots. But it’s Tris Vonna-Michell’s spellbinding spoken-word travelogues that deserve to win

• 'A passionate, bloody arena': 30 years of the Turner prize, from Emin's bed to Grayson's dress – video

  Video (2min 59sec), 29 Sep 2014:

  The Turner prize, launched 30 years ago, remains a focal point for British art and all its invention, vision and public outrage. Tate director Nicholas Serota and The Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones consider its legacy, ahead of 2014's exhibition opening this week

• The Turner prize, John Malkovich and Ai Weiwei at Alcatraz and Blenheim Palace – the week in art

  26 Sep 2014: Jonathan Jones: The four shortlistees line up at Tate Britain, as the actor recreates world-famous photos and the big man of Beijing finds two unexpected new homes

• Don't call Glasgow's contemporary art scene a miracle

  10 May 2014:

  Glasgow has produced three of this year's Turner Prize nominees, and several previous winners. Moira Jeffrey is not surprised

• Turner prize 2014: the shortlisted artists' work - in pictures

  7 May 2014: Maths equations performed by dancers, censored raunch from Japan and mighty memory quests – here's a snapshot of work from the Turner prize 2014 shortlist

• Turner prize 2014: a deliberately difficult shortlist that will shake up art

  7 May 2014:

  This is a more dour list than usual, with unfamiliar names and few concessions to visual pleasure. Adrian Searle is stumped