Some may be heralding it as the most diverse yet, but has this year’s Turner Prize discriminated against the young and emerging, asks Michael Glover.
Hull is a very distinctive destination. It’s not a place you pass through. It’s a place you arrive at. Hull Trains spirits you up from London, and when you reach this exposed spit of land in East Yorkshire, you (almost) hit the buffers. The only way of leaving again is by going into reverse. To get elsewhere, you have to think again. It’s an old port city, with all the wild, raucous, sea-wind-whipped energies you might expect of such a coming-and-going place. The old cobbled streets beside the canal positively judder and jump to all the Saturday-night street revelry. It’s also the current UK City of Culture... Keep reading on Independent
Hull is a very distinctive destination. It’s not a place you pass through. It’s a place you arrive at. Hull Trains spirits you up from London, and when you reach this exposed spit of land in East Yorkshire, you (almost) hit the buffers. The only way of leaving again is by going into reverse. To get elsewhere, you have to think again. It’s an old port city, with all the wild, raucous, sea-wind-whipped energies you might expect of such a coming-and-going place. The old cobbled streets beside the canal positively judder and jump to all the Saturday-night street revelry. It’s also the current UK City of Culture... Keep reading on Independent