Turner Prize Awarded and Like Clockwork, Fun Ensues

We love the annual Turner Prize, not simply because it’s one of the biggest art awards in the world, but because of how it seems to drive the British people, particularly those who happen to be journalists, and sometimes photographers, absolutely crazy. Artist Martin Boyce has won this year, and now that we’ve told you that, we can move on to the more fun stuff. The press, of course, has a yearly tradition of rabidly bashing the award; how terrible everything is, or how the winner shouldn’t have won (with the rare exception, like in 2009, when

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