from the NME 18th Dec letters page:

K IS FOR CRAP

Re: The K Foundation 'Worst' Artist Award.
    I feel it was a wholly lame and empty statement in awarding 
40,000 to the winner of the recent Turner Prize as a protest against 
the state of the arts.
    Surely it would have been better to set up a rival, equally 
highbrow but genuine award, reflecting their (The K Foundation) ideas 
about the art world and their opinions on just who should be 
acclaimed as the best artist of the year? Surely this would be a 
positive gesture to both artist and art world alike?
    All that Drummond and Cauty have succeeded in staging is yet 
another cynical, money-wasting display of self-promotion. In this 
event no-one wins.
    They don't even have the guts to give us their opinions on just 
what good art is. Is it Cauty's Hobbit poster for Athena? I think 
not.
    If, as is apparent they have so much spare cash, I enclose my 
address to be passed on forthwith.
                                    Mrs F Lynch, Derby

Yours and mine both, dear, but money grabbing aside the K Foundation 
have re-invented themselves as art terrorists and acts of sheer gall 
and downright cheek are often the best ways of venting disapproval.
    It was the same with the Brit Awards, when Cauty and Drummond 
dumped the dead sheep. Some situations just dont call for niceities, 
some institutions are just too highbrow, too stubborn, too elitist to 
give time to hear out a couple of scuffy ex-musicians.
    More of the same, that's what we say. Shame about that Hobbit 
poster, though - Gina Morris

Typical. The K foundation try to shake up the pompous art world with 
another one of their scandlous deeds and all you journos can do is 
pocket the money.
    OK, so it wasn't you particular dishonest scummy journos, but 
let's face it - you're all the same.
    Happy Christmas.
                                            Glen, Harrow