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DT 31170

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31170

Hints and tips by Smylers

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Hello from Ilkley, part of the City of Bradford, last year’s UK City of Culture. That involved hosting the Turner Prize, the exhibition for which we finally got round to visiting this weekend. Here are some pictues of works by Mohammed Sami, winner Nnena Kalu, and two of Zadie Xa’s golden-floored room (in which we had to remove our shoes):

two children looking at a large orange painting of a dust-storm in a forest, with bright green laser beams shining through it large blobby objects suspended from the ceiling, each made of brightly coloured strips of material and junk
a room with mostly red walls, a golden foor, and a centrepiece of a raised octogon and a chandalier-like sculpture of tiny suspended shiny things in a spiral column the same room from a different angle, showing a large painting on the wall, featuring a stylized underwater scene

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