Turner List Lesson: Shock Is Yesterday’s News

The Turner Prize jury surprises the art world with its choices for this year’s shortlist. “Though the panel did not make it quite explicit yesterday, the lesson of its shortlist was clear: the not-so-Young British Artists, the shock-horror stars of the 1990s, have had their day. This is a shortlist of serious established artists who have been beavering away for decades and are now flirting with middle age.”