Beck's Futures 2005 Art critic Jonathan Jones of the Guardian newspaper idiocy of Beck's Futures art prize in the United Kingdom. The Beck's Futures and the Turner prize seem to have worked out how to get publicity, which is fine for art in the short term. People will tire of controversy for controversy's sake. The Archibald prize in Sydney is announced in a couple days too..
This prize can only be a satire on the idiocy of art
"Beck's Futures, I have come to realize, is a satire on the emptiness of prizes and the idiocy of art.
The award may be worth £26,666 to Christina Mackie but in itself it is a valueless trinket. It will not change her career or secure her fame, because the Beck's has proved it has no intellectual integrity and no judgment. This year's winner confirms that the prize conceived as a rival to the Turner is a clumsy Frankenstein mistake which should be allowed to die in a dark corner."
Guardian  ¶ 1:26 AM