2002: Keith Tyson
A Tate visitor looks at Tyson's prizewinning Bubble Chambers: 2 Discrete Molecules of Simultaneity. That year, Prince Charles wrote a letter commending a British official for publicly criticizing the Turner Prize, which has honored pornographic and otherwise edgy artwork. "It has contaminated the art establishment for so long," Charles wrote of the prize.

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