The “Alternative Turner Prize” is a plea “for a wider and more generous choice of art and artists” than is recognized by the Turner Prize. This year’s shortlist of eight has three painters, two internet artists, a sculptor, a photographer and a graffiti artist. It will be judged by a panel of critics drawn from conceptualist and traditional schools. Organizers “insist it is not an anti-Turner event, and is at great pains to distance itself from the Stuckists, who protest outside the Turner Prize ceremony every year.”