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This week-end, I visited two very different exhibitions currently at Tate Britain. One – the Turner Prize retrospective - was for art class, the other – Millais – was for pleasure. Not that art class is unpleasurable but, in general, I just don’t ‘get’ the Turner Prize. However, I was quite surprised at my interest and fascination for some of the exhibits there, even if I wasn’t always in agreement with which ones should have won. The contrast between that and the Millais could not have been more different and to be honest, I felt slightly underwhelmed by the same contrivedness of it all. Next stop, ‘shibboleth’ at Tate Modern.