Turner Prize 2025 (Cartwight Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, 27 September 2025-22 February 2026)

I’ve got to the Turner Prize exhibition, in London every year for a decade and to the off-metropolitan ones sometimes — Gateshead, Coventry, Margate, Liverpool, Eastbourne, although not Hull as it had closed for the ceremony to be set up. Bradford looked doable and could be combined with sidetrips to Wakesfield and Leeds, indeed Leeds was the place to stay.

(Vague memories of a trip to the Science and Media Museum, Bradford, as a child and another trip in the 1990s, and one of those involved Muppets, and I’d done three hours in February to see some Hockney. This was an hour too much for a grey and beige city marshalled by roadworks.)

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