Why the 2019 Turner Prize Winners’ Decision to Split the Award’s $52,000 Purse Is Radical

Each year, the Turner Prize, the most prominent art award in the United Kingdom, makes people angry. But the reason some were up in arms this year was entirely different—there was not one winner, but four.
At its award ceremony last night, the Turner Prize was given to all four of the shortlisted artists—Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani—who had requested that they be considered for the prize as a collective. Their aim, they wrote in a letter