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If only this year’s Turner prize were bad. If only it were scandalous, scatological, grotesque, ugly or enraging. Anything but this earnest, prosy offering

An exhibition of the shortlisted Turner Prize nominees opened on England's south coast on Wednesday, with four artists vying for the most prestigious -- and often controversial -- award in British art.The annual award seeks to encourage debate around new advances in contemporary art and is given to a visual artist based or born in Britain.

Times photographer James GlossopThe work of making neon signs is on the Heritage Crafts Association’s red list of endangered crafts in the UK. Tony Spink’s work

A prestigious art exhibition which runs for seven months starts this week.

Partly founded on slave money, the Fitzwilliam grapples with its past and present in an exhibition that spreads its net wide but fails to get down to the really painful details

Whether you’re after Hollywood beefcakes or intense performance art, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

Barbara Walker, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Jesse Darling explain what’s gone into their nominated work – from a ‘dysfunctional’ steel rollercoaster to a dramatic fountain splashing water on to the venue floor

There’s a Constable in the living room, the Turner prize in Eastbourne and a sensual statuette at the Wallace – all in your weekly dispatch

What happens when a museum outlives the worldview of its founder? For publicly funded museums with collections amassed during the Empire that no longer reflect the perspectives of a post-imperial multiracial audience, it’s a difficult question. For the Fitzwilliam Museum, there’s an added embarrassment: the £100,000 bequest from Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam with which it

With next week’s Turner prize opening in Eastbourne, we try a hop-on, hop-off bus service that takes art lovers around the area’s cultural hotspots