Turner prize

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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

• Turner prize favourite on film, Marx and the art of doing things differently

  12 Oct 2014: The film-maker talks to Vanessa Thorpe about how a struggle with the British Museum is central to his new work about the ownership and use of art

• '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

• Chris Huhne bucks trend in Grayson Perry’s exploration of transformation

  4 Oct 2014: Artist portrays change in transgender man and reality-TV star among others but former MP defiantly unchanged by prison

• '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

• Turner prize 2014 shuns painters and sculptors for art of film and video

  29 Sep 2014: Film pieces by three nominees add up to two hours of screen time at 30th edition show, alongside first printer in shortlist

• Censored bits and candy-coloured prints – the Turner prize 2014 in pictures

  29 Sep 2014: From censored genitalia to the spoken word in Southend, here’s a look at the four shortlisted artists for the 2014 Turner prize, which is at Tate Britain from 30 September to 4 January 2015. The winner will be announced on 1 December
  

• 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

• Wolfgang Tillmans to open music 'playback room' in Berlin gallery

  12 Sep 2014:

  Turner prize-winner aims to give pop music the same attention as visual art and allow people to hear records on top-end stereo

• Gillian Wearing digs up her past for tilt at Vincent Award

  8 Sep 2014: Turner Prize winner in line to collect Dutch prize for 'influencing the development of contemporary art in Europe'

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