Britain’s Turner Prize nominees prove the over-50s aren’t dead yet
London — A 62-year-old, Tanzanian-born artist whose creations include dinner plates painted with vomiting aristocrats is one of a new breed of nominee for British art’s high-profile Turner Prize: an over-50. Lubaina Himid is joined on the shortlist by British painter Hurvin Anderson, 52, the first artists over the age of 50 to be nominated since 1991 when a rule was adopted requiring nominees to be that. This is the first year since then that the rule has been dropped. "It feels at this moment that contemporary art is not as generational as perhaps it was in the 90s or even in the noughties," Alex Farquharson, director of organisers Tate Britain and chairperson of the Turner Prize told Reuters. "There are so many artists, now of older age, whose work is being shown in very contemporary contexts and being discussed in very current critical context, and are being looked at by younger artists." The other two shortlisted artists, German painter Andrea Büttner and British filmmaker Rosal...
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