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UK News 28-04-2005
who: Artist Christina Mackie
what: Wins Beck`s Futures Prize for contemporary art
where: Institute of Contemporary Art, LONDON
when: Tuesday
snippet: "The sculpture was praised by the ICA and judging panel for spearheading a new era of quiet, `anti-sensationalist` art," says The Independent. "The award may be worth £26,666 to Christina Mackie but in itself it is a valueless trinket," complains Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. "It will not change her career or secure her fame, because the Beck`s has proved it has no intellectual integrity and no judgment." In other art news, 78 year-old Françoise Bornet, who was photographed in 1950 kissing her boyfriend in a portrait by Robert Doisneau titled Le Baiser de l`Hôtel de Ville, sold a signed print of the photo in Paris for £105,000. [... more]
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