BBC Arts to share news of major arts awards this autumn
Melanie May | 29 September 2021 | News
BBC Arts is to share all the news of four major arts awards this autumn: Art Fund Museum Of The Year, The Turner Prize, the Royal Institute Of British Architect’s (RIBA) Stirling Prize and The Booker Prize.
BBC Arts started earlier this month with Art Fund Museum Of The Year (won by Colchester’s FirstSite) and will continue through until The Turner Prize in December. Audiences will have the chance to watch or listen to the ceremonies live as they are simulcast on the BBC News Channel Radio 4’s Front Row and BBC iPlayer, alongside additional short films on each of the nominees for all four prizes which will be available on BBC digital platforms.
Patrick Holland, Director of Factual, Arts & Classical Music at the BBC, said:
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“I’m delighted that the BBC will once again be bringing these major arts awards to audiences this year. Although Covid means ceremonies have had to adapt, we are wholly committed to working with the Booker Prize, Art Fund (Museum Of The Year), Turner Prize and RIBA (Stirling Prize) teams to share these celebrations of excellence in the arts using the breadth of the BBC’s platforms.”
The prizes:
21 September The Art Fund Museum Of The Year 2021 winner was announced at the Science Museum. Won by FirstSite in Colchester, the other nominees were Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry, Experience Barnsley, Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds and Timespan in Helmsdale, Sutherland.
14 October The RIBA Stirling Prize will be announced from Coventry Cathedral on 14 October, as part of the UK City of Culture 2021 celebration. The shortlist was announced on 16 September and includes the Tintagel Castle footbridge, Windermere Jetty Museum, and Cambridge Central Mosque.
3 November The winner of The Booker Prize will be announced at the Radio Theatre in BBC Broadcasting House, London. The shortlist of six books was announced on 14 September, and includes A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam, The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed, and No One is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood.
1 December The Turner Prize will be presented at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, as part of the city’s UK City of Culture 2021 celebrations. This year’s nominees are Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works.
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