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Featured Authors. Gifts for bibliophiles. Book Bundles. Writing Workshops. View all. Curated Bundles. For instance, responding to the release of the names of those shortlisted for the Turner in , Sooke wrote, "The great triumph of the Turner Prize was that, during the s, it won a large audience for contemporary art in this country. But, now that this battle has been won, it faces a tricky problem: how can it sustain widespread interest when it no longer feels appropriate to describe the work that is shortlisted each year as 'shocking' or 'controversial'?
Newspapers and broadcasters loved reporting their provocations, and artists loved dreaming up ever more outrageous antics to provide fodder for newspapers and broadcasters. It was a potent symbiosis.
More recently, however, things have quietened down: last year's winner, for instance, was Richard Wright, who makes gentle, exquisite wall paintings that are a world away from the headline-grabbing work of the YBAs Young British Artists who, championed by Charles Saatchi, dominated the s. It's as if collectively our attitude to contemporary art has mellowed and matured.
In his writing for The Telegraph, Sooke has also reported periodically on the career of Tracey Emin, since she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in for her piece, My Bed, where she "notoriously showed her unmade bed, surrounded by squalid mementoes of life on the edge, including empty vodka bottles, pill packets and used condoms. Sooke categorized Emin's work between and as being "explicitly confessional," and in the "tradition of outsider art," and describes her as "one of only a handful of British artists who can also claim genuine celebrity," but at least some of her work as being "insufficiently stimulating," visually.
Reporting on Emin's widely covered five-week exhibition of gouache nudes, bronze sculptures, and textile and neon pieces in October—November at the White Cube gallery in Bermondsey, South London , Sooke broke the story that Emin, artist and professor of drawing at the Royal Academy since , had composed the nudes during "life-drawing classes [that] she has been attending in New York," and that the "sculptures are the results of lessons in how to cast bronze over the past three years.
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