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Tim

Machpants

@Tim said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

Probably lots of vodka involved

This is award winning art, must've taken at least an hour

Dec 5, 2023 / Art and design

Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize

The Oxford-born artist won the £25,000 award for sculptures made of commonplace objects conveying ‘the messy reality of life’, and unsettling ‘notions of labour, class, Britishness and power’

dogmeat

@Machpants

Truly? Really?

Rapper Tinie Tempah presented the award to Darling, who was commended by the jury for his “use of materials and commonplace objects like concrete, welded barriers, hazard tape, office files and net curtains, to convey a familiar yet delirious world invoking societal breakdown, his presentation unsettles perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and power.”

Afterwards, Darling pulled a Palestinian flag out of his pocket. When asked later why, the artist said: “Because there’s a genocide going on and I wanted to say something about it on the BBC.”

The Turner prize, regarded as one of the art world’s most prestigious awards, is presented to an artist born or working in Britain for an outstanding exhibition or presentation of their work over the previous year.
The work of Darling, who currently resides in Berlin, impressed the jury most of all. They praised the artist’s ability to manipulate materials “in ways that skilfully express the messy reality of life” and expose “the world’s underlying fragility”.

Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury, said that Darling’s work was a “state of a nation” address that had a “timeliness, dynamism and a boldness that was really grappling with the world … and there’s a lot of humour in the work and you feel immersed in its world.”

Farquharson added that the work was juggling with themes of Brexit, nationality, identity, bureaucracy, immigration and austerity. “There’s a sense of timeliness with all the work, and in that sense I think it’s a really good year. Everyone in their separate ways, feels of the moment.”

It's certainly not the Fighting Temeraire

Machpants

It's utter wank, to put it succinctly

antipodean

@dogmeat said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

Farquharson added that the work was juggling with themes of Brexit, nationality, identity, bureaucracy, immigration and austerity.

Grab bag of trendy issues.

Bones

Apr 9, 2023 / 00:49

Fights, vomiting and abuse: Theatregoers have forgotten how to behave, staff say

Drunk audience members projectile vomiting, used condoms being found in the stalls, and ambulances being called are now all common occurrences in London's West End.

booboo

MiketheSnow

@Machpants said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

This is award winning art, must've taken at least an hour

Dec 5, 2023 / Art and design

Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize

The Oxford-born artist won the £25,000 award for sculptures made of commonplace objects conveying ‘the messy reality of life’, and unsettling ‘notions of labour, class, Britishness and power’

One could argue that celebrating repurposed pompous posturing is doing more to alienate ‘the person in the street’ from art & culture than Thatcher could have ever hoped to achieve.

Victor Meldrew

@Bones said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

This was also on telly this morning, I was having a giggle at how all the cows were white, then they said the lady is charging £125 for it! I'm buying a cow.

Seems her price has raised since this article.

Nov 20, 2023 / Life and style

Can cuddling a cow make me less stressed? There’s one way to find out …

Fifty pounds will buy you three hours petting the retired dairy cows at Dumble Farm in East Yorkshire – and the tickets sell out almost instantly

I'm already talking to Mrs Meldrew about renting out our fence by the hour so people can pat our neighbours Limousins

Victor Meldrew

@Machpants said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

It's utter wank, to put it succinctly

Classic case a few years back when a builder left a bag of plaster or cement in the Tata Modern and it was mistaken for a piece of high art.

Catogrande

@Victor-Meldrew

And a similar case where some abstract painting was being wanked over for months by all the critics and the gallery discovered it had been hung upside down for the whole time.

Bones

@Victor-Meldrew said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

@Bones said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

This was also on telly this morning, I was having a giggle at how all the cows were white, then they said the lady is charging £125 for it! I'm buying a cow.

Seems her price has raised since this article.

Nov 20, 2023 / Life and style

Can cuddling a cow make me less stressed? There’s one way to find out …

Fifty pounds will buy you three hours petting the retired dairy cows at Dumble Farm in East Yorkshire – and the tickets sell out almost instantly

I'm already talking to Mrs Meldrew about renting out our fence by the hour so people can pat our neighbours Limousins

Really disappointed to discover that's a breed of cattle.

Victor Meldrew

@Bones said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

Really disappointed to discover that's a breed of cattle.

Nevorian

@Victor-Meldrew said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

@scribe said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

It’s not me but I’m not the only Ferner in London.

What are the chances of any in Sunderland...

Seagull probably stole his chips

scribe

@Nevorian said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

@scribe said in Stupid shit you see on the internet:

It’s not me but I’m not the only Ferner in London.

What are the chances of any in Sunderland...

Seagull probably stole his chips