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Oct 5

Turner trouble

Turner Prize bosses made an exhibition of themselves yesterday, by trying to ban any bad publicity.

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The row blew up after members of the Press were asked to sign a form which said journalists could not publish any images or words which would “result in any adverse publicity” for the exhibition.

  • Tom Pettifor, ‘Turner Prize in another mess as art bosses try to ban bad publicity’, The Mirror, 5 October 2010, <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/10/05/prize-idiots-115875-22609674/>
AW: Oh dear. Obviously this has been blown out of all proportion by the kind of people who refer to curators, press officers and gallery staff as ‘art bosses’, but it doesn’t look good. Stand by for our review soon.