Turner Prize Shortlist Announced, UK Press Begins Bashing

Last year, faith in the Tate‘s Turner Prize was rekindled when it was awarded to the dark horse in the contest, the Scottish artist Richard Wright. Even the Guardian‘s usually Turner-sour critic Jonathan Jones said Wright was “one of the worthiest Turner winners ever.” Now the shortlist for the 2010 prize has just been announced, which includes four artists, two of which are surprisingly painters (there haven’t seem to have been many duplicate mediums in previous years), and none