Word: arnolfini
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...Amsterdam this year. Tate, the Tate Modern's magazine, which promotes the museum's activities - including the Turner Prize - reports that in 12 of the last 20 years, Turner Prize jurors came from galleries that had hosted exhibitions for nominated artists. Three 1989 nominees had exhibited in Bristol's Arnolfini Gallery - whose director, Barry Barker, was on the Turner jury. In 1996, juror James Lingwood disclosed that his wife was an agent of one of the nominated artists. A spokesman for the Tate Modern says such conflicts are unavoidable when choosing judges from the small pool of people...
...motto Van Eyck wrote above his Arnolfini wedding portrait in the 15th century, "Jan van Eyck was here, is by implication engraved on every 35-mm. viewfinder. Yet the idea is still current that documentary photographs are not subjective enough, not personal...
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