A Culture Minister With A Critical Streak

UK culture minister Kim Howells made headlines a few weeks ago by trash-talking the art chosen for this year’s Turner Prize shortlist. Now that a winner has been chosen, he renewed his attack this describing Turner judges as “black-wearing elites who talk in psychobabble. He said that the competition, which was won by Keith Tyson on Sunday, had been overrun by self-serving colonists of the ‘incomprehensible classes’.”