THIS YEAR'S TURNER ART PRIZE RESULT PRODUCES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

DESPITE its prestige, the annual Turner art prize can never quite escape a whiff of comedy.

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In part, this is because so many of the entries sound like absurd parodies of modern art, designed by a team of satirists to maximise public ridicule.

The humour is further enhanced by the self-reverence of most participants — judges, organisers, critics and artists — who take themselves very seriously as they try to find meaning in the annual collection of tat.