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Arts correspondent David Sillito met curator Katherine Stout and art expert Rachel Campbell Johnston to explore the works on display at this year's show . What is contemporary art coming to? The answer at the moment is far from clear...says Rachel Campbell Johnston in Times magazine... well, let the images speak for themselves and their critics to be yourselves: Four artists shortlisted for 2010 Turner Prize Turner Prize 2010: press reviews and some "old stuff" made by this William Turner one of the greatest masters of British landscape painting, two hundred years before:

I just came back home, after a couple of months of travelling and new experiences, from the Adriatic coast to Sulina - the ending point of the Danube, where the river flows into the Black Sea. I met many interesting people, especially artists, from many countries, each of them with their own background, culture and thoughts. It is so refreshing to see so many different nationalities and characters in such a small part of this world. From a Spanish actor cycling from Spain to India, whom I met in Sulina, to 36 artists from 21 countries in Aiud, a small town of Transylvania, in an art camp I attended in August. I took so many pictures, that it’s hard to choose which I should post right now! To begin with, I’d like to show you some landscapes, which inspired my work in the art camp from Aiud, a camp organized by several enthusiastic people like Stefan Balog, Robert Lixandru or Ioan Hadarig. I took these pictures with the idea of bringing together the model and the painting in the sam...