Des O’Sullivan lauds a celebration of refugees’ cultural contribution.

LAURE PROUVOST’S win of the Turner Prize for 2013 is the latest in a long line of surprises that have helped keep the visual arts award in the news.

French artist Laure Prouvost has won this year’s Turner Prize for her video installation set in a mocked-up tea party.

A blank gallery where people engage in conversations about the economy and a huge naked humanoid figure are to battle it out for the UK’s best-known art award, the Turner Prize.

ARTIST Stephen Brandes’ monumental piece, ‘April 22nd — From the Last Travelogue of Albert Sitzfleisch’, dominates the foyer of the Royal Hibernian Academy. His show, part of the RHA’s autumn programme, is satiric, provocative, charming and unsettling.