http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/seriousness-is-the-new-black--the-turner-prize-at-tate-britain-and-anish-kapoor-at-the-royal-academy--sue-hubbard------many.html Many factors have lead to London’s pre-eminence in the contemporary art world: the importance of Goldsmith’s College to the Hirst generation of YBAs, Saatchi’s ubiquitous influence as a collector, Jay Joplin’s White Cube gallery, the founding of the annual Frieze art fair, and of course, the Turner Prize, that annual award set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art presented each year to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition in the preceding twelve months. It has always been a controversial affair. There was, of course, that bed (it didn’t win) and Martin Creed’s minimal… ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:50:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/seriousness-is-the-new-black--the-turner-prize-at-tate-britain-and-anish-kapoor-at-the-royal-academy--sue-hubbard------many.html