BBCNEWS Sportsday January 26, 2017
Prize fits into a landscape already teeming with awards . I think artes mundi is very important for the uk, because the awards you have in the uk are national. For example, the turner prize. Its for british artists, or british based artists, so what the uk didnt really have in a very eminent way was an international prize. So i think it fills a gap, an important gap. The judges said they awarded the prize Tojohn Akomfrah for the way in which his work explores migration, racism and persecution. To speak of these things at this moment, they said, feels more important than ever. Newsnight is gett...
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