Turner prize to be announced in London later today



(BBC slideshow here).

I don't know if I am getting old, but there seems to be so much rubbish on each year nowadays.
I've always loved contemporary art but it really seems that no-one has managed to come up with new ideas since the 60s...

Ok, I'm exagerating. There is Tracy Amin, and a few others. But a lot of the stuff we see is rather gimmicky and doesn't really generate much thought in me...

Even Marcel Duchamp's work (like it or hate it) was thought-provoking, but melting a passenger jet engine to spray the resulting dust on a gallery floor?... Gimme a break...

Stainless steel lattice with cubes of cow brain... They used fat in the 60s... See! Nothing new!

I do like Enrico David's work though:



I know, I know, all art is subjective...