The Turner Prize - what is art?

Since it began about twenty-five years ago, one popular annual British award for contemporary artists Britain has only had three women winners. Some more serious-minded critics and many aspiring artists dismiss The Turner Prize, as it is called, as pretentious and unrepresentative of the art it claims to reward. It does appear to succeed, however, in offering a wide range of people the regular opportunity to ask what constitutes art.

Women winners:

60 minutes of Silence 1997 - Gillian Wearing

Veeke 2005 - Tomma Obts 

House 1993 - Rachel Whiteread