Shortlist for annual Turner Prize for art is published: “The nominees announced Thursday for the $30,000 annual award are Fiona Banner, Liam Gillick, Keith Tyson and Catherine Yass, all Britons. In keeping with the Turner Prize’s taste for the avant-garde, all are conceptual artists working with a range of unusual media. The prize has regularly been criticized for overlooking more conventional art forms. Some of the more unusual entries in recent years have included a soiled bed, a pickled cow and an elephant dung painting. This year, as in recent years, there was no painter among the finalists.” National Post