{"id":95589,"date":"2019-06-02T01:05:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/02\/artist-reveals-why-her-turner-prize-victory-was-bittersweet\/"},"modified":"2019-06-02T01:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T23:05:16","slug":"artist-reveals-why-her-turner-prize-victory-was-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95589","title":{"rendered":"Artist reveals why her Turner prize victory was \u2018bittersweet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lubaina Himid, the first woman of colour to win the award, was once told, \u2018black people don\u2019t make art\u2019Lubaina Himid, the first black woman to win, in 2017, the Turner prize, has spoken of the challenges faced by her and other artists of colour in the early days of her career, saying the establishment considered them \u201calien\u201d, and one person even told her: \u201cBlack people don\u2019t make art.\u201dSpeaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Desert Island Discs, the Preston-based artist described her recent achievements as \u201cbittersweet\u201d, as they only came after many years of other black women being overlooked. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/jun\/02\/lubaina-himid-black-woman-turner-prize-race-bittersweet\" target=\"_blank\">Artist reveals why her Turner prize victory was \u2018bittersweet\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lubaina Himid, the first woman of colour to win the award, was once told, \u2018black people don\u2019t make art\u2019Lubaina Himid, the first black woman to win, in 2017, the Turner prize, has spoken of the challenges faced by her and other artists of colour in the early days of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}