Better Tate.RACHEL WITHERS withers the region over the backline where the neck joins the thorax and where the dorsal margins of the scapulae lie just below the skin. fistulous withers see fistulous withers. ON THE 2000 TURNER PRIZE SHORTLIST short·list also short-list n. A list of preferable items or candidates that have been selected for final consideration, as in making an award or filling a position. Noun 1. HOW LONG MUST NONNATIVE artists live and work in Britain before they shed the label "foreign"? A decade plus, imply some dispiriting dis·pir·it tr.v. dis·pir·it·ed, dis·pir·it·ing, dis·pir·its To lower in or deprive of spirit; dishearten. See Synonyms at discourage. [di(s)- + spirit.] Adj. press reactions to the 2000 Turner Prize shortlist, which includes three artists born abroad. And yet the demographics of this year's lineup chime chime, in music: see bell. nicely with Tate Britain's general desire to test the parameters of "British" art. Candidates for the $30,250 prize are painters Glenn Brown (born Hexham, UK, 1966) and Michael Raedecker (born Amsterdam, 1963); installation artist Tomoko Takahashi (born Tokyo, 1966); and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (born Remscheid, Germany, 1968). Raedecker has worked in the UK for five years, Takahashi and Tillmans for ten. All four have greatly enriched the British art scene; none, however, conforms to the accepted YBA YBA Banff, Alberta, Canada (Airport Code) YBA Young British Artist (generation of British artists born between mid-1960s and 1970s) YBA You'll Be Alright YBA Youth Buddhist Association (Hawaii) model. The June 14 announcement has prompted much hand-wringing in the press over "Britart," its own cherished and now officially dead invention, as speculations about the chances of Sarah Lucas and Martin Creed have been scotched- -at least for the moment. Shortlist authors (and the jurors) for this year's award are gallery directors Jan Debbaut (of the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven) and Julia Peyton-Jones (of London's Serpentine Gallery); the Tate's Keir McGuinness (chairman, Patrons of New Art); and Frieze frieze, in architecture, the member of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice or any horizontal band used for decorative purposes. In the first type the Doric frieze alternates the metope and the triglyph; that of the other orders is plain or publisher Matthew Slotover. Jury chairman and Tate director Nicholas Serota will stifle any fisticuffs. The result of their deliberations will be broadcast live on November 28, courtesy of event sponsors Channel 4. Tillmans, whose artfully casual, Gen X-privy snaps first showed up in the pages of youth style magazines like i-D, currently looks the likely winner. But, as dedicated Turnerazzi know, there's many a slip 'twixt odds-on status and ample check. Brown, best known for his virtuoso, pyrotechnic copies of Auerbach, Fragonard, and Dali, excavates the seam first opened by '80s Simulationism. He has a good chance of winning, as does Takahashi, installer of vast acreages of recycled junk and scene stealer par excellence. Her epic 1999 appropriation of Charles Saatchi's gallery, Line Out, an eye-poppingly detailed meditation on obsolescence ob·so·les·cent adj. 1. Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness; becoming obsolete. 2. Biology Gradually disappearing; imperfectly or only slightly developed. and passing time, blended spectacle with intelligence. Raedecker, painter of spare, muted, faintly anxiety-inducing embroidered em·broi·der v. em·broi·dered, em·broi·der·ing, em·broi·ders v.tr. 1. To ornament with needlework: embroider a pillow cover. 2. landscapes and interiors (and last year's winner of the John Moores painting prize), is arguably a less mature artist than the other three, but his work expands an engaging lineup. So, a Turner Prize list that helps true up the lopsided, Sensationalized picture of UK practice in the '90s: top-notch. And to all those foreign chappies: jolly good show all round. |
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