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Brain Haw for the Turner Prize!

I think we should start a campaign.

The conceptual artist Mark Wallinger, otherwise known as the Dancing Bear, has won the £25,000 Turner Prize for his monumental political work, State Britain, a recreation of the one-man Parliament Square anti-Iraq war protest destroyed by Tony Blair\’s government.

Most weird that a direct copy, a stencilling almost, should win an art prize. Thus we should campaign fo the prize (and the £25,000 cheque) to be stripped from Wallinger and award to Haw. He did, after all, make the original and isn\’t that what "Art" is about? Originality?

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windowlicker
windowlicker
17 years ago

“Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.”

Picasso

Surreptitious Evil
17 years ago

Subtle, ironic or typo?

mikepower
17 years ago

SE – well spotted!

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