Turner Prize 2022: a perplexing but ‘eye-popping’ experience

Despite the ‘apparent conflicts of interest’ of the judges, this year’s Turner Prize ‘looks pretty good’

Rupture No.6: Biting the Blowtorch Peach by Heather Phillipson
Heather Phillipson’s ‘spooky’ Rupture No.6: Biting the Blowtorch Peach
(Image credit: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP via Getty Images)

The Turner Prize often seems like the art industry “talking to itself”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. It has been awarded many times to “bafflingly overpromoted, dull or indifferent art”. But in the past, at least you could rely on its jury to be “credible”.

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