Birds battle buttocks, bike for top UK art prize

[mandy]

A pink hummingbird battled with a weather-beaten shed Monday for the Turner prize, one of the world's most contentious art awards, but they face stiff competition from a pair of pallid buttocks.

The quirky nature of the Turner prize entries invariably draws scorn from the critics, but up to 100,000 people flock to the Tate Britain museum every year to judge for themselves.

full article: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-10-17T163636Z_01_DIT752595_RTRUKOC_0_US-ARTS-TURNER-ODDS.xml&archived=False

The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2005 are Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling. .

more info on the Turner Prize 2005 and the artists: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2005/

[rose]

I liked Jim Lambie's art.  Could do without Gillian Carnegie's.