
Courtesy Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Gilbert & George's painted photo "Death After Life" (1984)

Courtesy the Saatchi Gallery, London
Grayson Perry's 2001 "Golden Ghosts" vase
TOKYO—Whether selecting Young
British Artists, such as
Damien
Hirst and
Tracey Emin,
or the cross-dressing ceramist
Grayson Perry, the ever-changing
juries of the
Turner
Prize, inaugurated by London’s
Tate Gallery in 1984, nail it
year after year when it comes
to anointing the U.K.’s best
and brightest art stars. Now, as
part of
UK/Japan 2008—a
yearlong series of events celebrating
cultural and political
ties between the two nations—Tokyo’s
Mori Art Museum has
joined with the Tate in organizing
“History in the Making:
A Retrospective of the Turner
Prize.” The exhibition, running
through July 13, contains
the work of every winner since
the prize’s inception.
Death
After Life, 1984, by 1986 prize
recipients
Gilbert & George
and
No Woman No Cry, 1998,
by
Chris Ofili, who won that
year, are among the colorful,
idiosyncratic compositions
on view.
"Talent Show" originally appeared in the May 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's May 2008 Table of Contents.