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Those guys are STILL at it?

http://www.stuckism.com/realturner.html

THE TURNER PRIZE - A Stuckist Manifesto

The Stuckists (est. 1999)

anti-anti-art

The first Remodernist art group

1. Everyone talks about The Turner Prize but very few people believe in its worth. It has become an ongoing national joke, because of its pathetic and pretentious exhibits.

2. The Turner Prize is not, despite what Sir Nicholas Serota believes, the popularising of art but its dumbing down into a circus of curiousities.

3. The Turner Prize effectively turns The Tate Gallery into a state-funded advertising agency for Charles Saatchi, the Lisson Gallery and the White Cube Gallery.

4. Turner did not rebuild launderettes. He did not take photographs. He did not make videos, nor, to our knowledge, did he pickle sheep or construct concrete casts of negative space.

5. It should be pointed out that what Turner actually did was to paint pictures.

6. To call The Turner Prize The Turner Prize is like calling bubble-gum caviar.

7. The only artist who wouldn't be in danger of winning The Turner Prize is Turner.

8. To award The Turner Prize to an inferior re-hash of a Buster Keaton film is like awarding an Oscar to the the workman who paint the Forth Bridge.

9. If the Trustees of The Tate Gallery have any respect for the values to which Turner devoted his life, The Turner Prize must be awarded to an artist who continues the tradition of communicating the power of life through painting.

10. Alternatively, we propose that The Turner Prize should be re-named The Duchamp Award for the destruction of artistic integrity.

Billy Childish

Charles Thomson

1.9.2000

I like number 10: calling it the Duchamp award would be more appropriate.

I think I learned about the Stuckists from you. I looked them up on the web and liked what they were about. I tried to join them, but it's tricky when you don't already have a group in your region. (When one lives in the stix, one is pretty isolated.)

And doesn't originality count for something. I mean, Daniel Buren has already done that stripe thing (which was empty then and no better now in Lambie's work).

by Daniel Buren. At least the play on the size of the striped columns is mildly amusing.