Time the Turner prize grew up: why it needs to embrace the over-50s

In the 1990s, having an age limit on Turner prize nominees dovetailed with a young punk energy in British art. But it’s now a pointless and conservative rule

The Turner prize is looking old – and paradoxically, this is down to its obsession with youth.

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