Nick Mailer
Britain’s most famous iconoclast presents a show of humour, beauty, and irreverence that reflects the complexities and contradictions in being human.
Shortlisted artist Barbara Walker’s work explores issues of racial identity and interrogates Britain’s past.
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London
From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
Justin Sutcliffe
Critics will say that immersive exhibitions destroy art but Hockney is ready to challenge them with his hour-long show
No. 470, 17 June 2009, iPad drawing from My Window.
David Hockney / Taschen
How the artist found endless variety in the daily view from his bed, cycling through the seasons with kaleidoscopes of light, colour, texture, form and space.
The style and date given for the painted room never sat right with MA Katritzky, who spent lockdown investigating whether the room was actually created by one of Britain’s greatest painters.
A member of gallery staff sits in one of 2019’s winning pieces called ‘Collective Conscience’ by artist Oscar Murillo.
Will Oliver/EPA
This more equitable approach might bring the prize closer to Turner’s original vision of his legacy.
EPA-EFE/Alba Vigaray
What does Hockey’s auction record for a living artist mean beyond the art market?
Lubaina Himid’s A Fashionable Marriage.
Tate Britain
Turner Prize’s diverse shortlist has made for a coherent and important show.