The Guardian

Lewis Glucksman Gallery

The surprise inclusion on this year's Stirling prize shortlist is a little-known art gallery in Cork. This is Cork's year as European Capital of Culture. With a budget of 15 million euros, it has not been the most expensive of these festivals, but then nor has it been the most pretentious. Cork 2005's programme of 236 creative projects, many chosen by local people, include the Knitting Map, an attempt to beat the world knitting record by having relays of local people click-clacking away at a giant tapestry of Cork life. One for the Guinness Book of Records, no doubt, and very much in the spirit of a festival that might otherwise be a worthy, slightly dull and underfunded occasion.