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Britain is obsessed with awards, and the art world is no exception. Tonight’s panel of art critics discusses this year’s Beck’s, speculating on who should win, who will win and what this means for the British art scene. What does it mean to be an emerging artist? Is being trendy important? How do art competitions affect artists’ careers, curators and sponsors? Critics: JJ Charlesworth, editor, The Future; Alex Coles, author, DesignArt (Tate); Alex Farquharson, writer and co-curator, British Art Show; Martin Herbert, London correspondent, Artforum; Jonathan Jones, The Guardian; Tom Lubbock, The Independent; Tom Morton, contributing editor, frieze, and co-Director, Man in the Holocene, Sally O’Reilly, co-editor, Implicasphere.