ADUsually the Turner Prize winner receives 25,000 pounds ($32,000) and the runners-up $5,000. But it has also been criticized for rewarding impenetrable conceptual work and often sparks debate about the value of modern art. ADThe surprise Turner result follows a contentious decision by jurors of this year’s Booker Prize for fiction to split the award between two writers, Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo. ADFarquharson said the Turner Prize had “broken the mold” before, with recent winners and nominees including architects and human-rights researchers. He said innovating had “kept the Turner Prize dynamic and surprising and not ossified.”“I don’t think it would have had that long history had it not evolved, had it not surprised us,” he said.

Source: Washington Post December 03, 2019 22:02 UTC