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From: Thunk Category: Art Date: 28 July 2008 Time: 01:00 PM Review: The John Moores shortlist has been published and its fun to trace the different streams of the four judges, ie the Sacha Craddock formalist abstract Royal Academy Schools stream, the Graham Crowley lets hear it for amateur masturbatory incompetence stream, the Chapmans nerdy gothic castrated figuration stream etc.The glamour is too much. In an art world riven with self interested solipsism, its fantastic that the judges have stuck their necks out and tried to evaluate the work formally and objectively.Whilst one feels that the judges have perhaps gone for a too high celebrity quotient and it would have been nice to have given more unknowns a chance.