Editing K Foundation (section)

==Turner Prize subversion==
{{Main|K Foundation art award}}

The [[K Foundation art award|1994 K Foundation award]] was an award given by the K Foundation to the "worst artist of the year".
The Foundation commissioned more press adverts,<ref name="Sandall-ads"/> instructing readers to "Abandon all art now"<ref>{{LibraryOfMu|tl=news|mu-id=339|type=K Foundation advertisement|title=Abandon All Art Now|work=[[The Guardian|Guardian Weekend]]|date=14 August 1993|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916111619/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=339|archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> and then inviting them to vote for the worst artist of the year.<ref>{{Cite news|type=K Foundation advertisement|title=Let The People Choose|work=[[The Guardian|Guardian Weekend]]|date=18 September 1993<!--library of mu ID 348-->}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|type=K Foundation advertisement|title=Let The People Choose|work=[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]|date=19 September 1993<!--library of mu ID 349-->}}</ref> The 1993 [[Turner Prize]] was being judged at the same time, and, perhaps not coincidentally, both awards had the same shortlist of four artists.<ref>{{LibraryOfMu|tl=news|mu-id=342|last=Ezard|first=John|title=Worst art hoaxers' scam goes kaput|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=30 August 1993|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916115813/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=342||archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> The prize being offered by Drummond and Cauty was £40,000 which was double the £20,000 offered for the Turner Prize.<ref name="KellyQ">{{LibraryOfMu|mu-id=377|author-link=Danny Kelly (journalist)|last=Kelly|first=Danny|title=Million Dollar Bash|work=[[Q Magazine]]|date=February 1994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916115143/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=377|archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref>

[[Channel 4]] Television broadcast coverage of the Turner Prize, during which three more K Foundation adverts were broadcast &mdash; these announced the "amending of art history".<ref>{{LibraryOfMu|tl=citation|mode=cs1|mu-id=516|title=Three 30-second K Foundation TV advertisements|publisher=[[Channel 4]]|date=23 November 1993|mu-transcript-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916114719/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=516|archive-date=16 September 2016|transcripts=yes}}</ref> During the evening, [[Rachel Whiteread]] was announced as the winner of both the Turner Prize and the K Foundation award. Whiteread initially refused to accept the K Foundation prize, but after being told that the money would be incinerated, she reluctantly accepted, with the intention of donating £30,000 to artists in financial need and the other £10,000 to the housing charity, [[Shelter (charity)|Shelter]].<ref name="Face"/><ref>{{LibraryOfMu|tl=news|mu-id=366|title=The Best Of Artists, The Worst of Artists|work=[[New York Times]]|date=29 November 1993|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916115344/http://www.libraryofmu.net/display-resource.php?id=366|archive-date=16 September 2016}}</ref><ref>This was announced in an advertisement placed by Whiteread in ''[[Art Monthly]]'', January 1994. See [[:Image:Rachel Whiteread's K Foundation award advert.jpg]] for a scan.</ref>