The Independent ran an article yesterday bearing bad news for the Turner Prize, the winner of which is to be announced today. According to the paper’s report it might, well, just not matter very much anymore.

Despite a shortlist featuring a film about broken crockery, a mannequin sitting on a lavatory, a photo collage and an installation featuring, among other things, Felix the Cat, this year’s prize…has raised barely a murmur.

Critics have panned it as the “worst on record” and likened the exhibition at London’s Tate Britain to an “afternoon spent in a Heathrow departure lounge”.

Channel 4 broadcaster and Modern Painters magazine columnist Matthew Collings, quoted in the article, had, er, kind words for the Turner, though:

“It’s always pretty ridiculous. As a society we accept the nonsense as part of cultural fun. The line-up this year is no more idiotic than usual.”