Turner Prize Won By Singing Artist Philipsz as Students Shout

The Turner Prize, Britain’s top visual-arts award, last night went to the sound artist Susan Philipsz, who plays recordings of her singing voice at bus stations and bridge underpaths.

The prize-giving event at London’s Tate Britain was overtaken by about 50 students protesting government cuts in education spending. Though they were walled off behind partitions, their shouts -- that Tate “would be empty without art schools” and that education “should be free for all, not a product for purchase” -- virtually drowned out the live, televised proceedings.