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Arawn-ap-Hywel · Dec 4, 2007, 06:25 pm

Bear-faced cheek wins the Turner (and a Michelangelo compliment) - Times Online

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The artist who produced a shaky video of a man walking around a gallery in a bear costume has won the 2007 Turner Prize, Britain’s foremost contemporary art award.

Mark Wallinger, 48, from Chigwell in Essex, has been intriguing visitors to the Turner exhibition at Tate Liverpool with Sleeper, in which, dressed in synthetic fur, he wanders aimlessly around a gallery long after closing time, looking out at passers-by and occasionally disappearing from sight.

Wallinger received the £25,000 cheque last night after being nominated for another work, State Britain, a meticulous re-creation of Brain Haw’s anti-war protest in Parliament Square.

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re-creation

is this not Plagiarism rather than artistic innovation?

Milton Bradley · Dec 5, 2007, 02:51 am

Art is so subjective that it's realy hard to comment.

I ( basically ) like classic art, so all of this new rubbish seems like, well, rubbish to me.

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Milton Bradley BANNED Location: Ohio Province, Rep. of Comerica Posts: 7,320	Art is so subjective that it's realy hard to comment. I ( basically ) like classic art, so all of this new rubbish seems like, well, rubbish to me.