Group that renovates housing gets Britain's Turner art prize
By Michael Roddy GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) - An architectural and design collective that helped to renovate a run-down area of Liverpool to try to stem a tide of gentrification won Britain's Turner Prize for contemporary art on Monday. Joseph Halligan, 27, one of 18 members of Assemble, said he hoped the publicity for the prize would draw people worldwide to buy products from a workshop selling replicas of housing fixtures to help support the project. "I believe that anyone can create art and
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