Turner Prize 2016 Shortlist: I Like Big Butt Sculptures And I Cannot Lie
Check out the four nominees for the art award.
The 2016 shortlist for the highly coveted Turner Prize has finally been announced, and everyone's talking about one particular installation by Anthea Hamilton - because it's a massive butt. But we're here to tell you that that's not what it's all about. There's a train too.
Damien Hirst previously won the Turner Prize
Art is one of those things that people think you need to take really seriously, but sometimes that's just impossible. Anthea Hamilton is among the four names on the 2016 Turner Prize shortlist for her New York solo exhibition 'Anthea Hamilton: Lichen! Libido! Chastity!' at SculptureCenter. Her work features a pair of naked buttocks being clasped by a pair of hands poking out of an 18-foot brick wall, and she calls it 'Project for Door (After Gaetano Pesce)'.
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