In my personal opinion, no. Working down the road from Hamleys I see people walking around in various costumes, including bears, nearly every day. It seems if you give it an obscure title and have been �trained in the arts� that almost anything can be seen on one side of the fence as the remarkable work of a genius, but on the other, the crap production of a limited mind for inane self-promotion and pretentious recognition in the ambiguous myriad of the modern art world.
At best, his installation of the collected �demonstration stand� of the man who protested against the war outside parliament for a number of years and which I passed and yelled encouragement a number of times, was considered a political and artistic �coup�. In my mind, he effectively stole someone else�s work and called his own art under his name. At least some of the �25,000 prize should have gone to the man who came up with the original idea.
Turner prize is meant to get you talking about �art� and in this it succeeds. The question that always remains, year on year is what the buck IS art. It appears if you are in the art world it is something radically different to that as opined by the general population. I guess, as with our TV, it is geared towards sensationalism for attention, rather than substance.