Drooping Paintings, Voice in a Room Vie for Turner Prize: Review

Judging the Turner Prize is often more like assessing the relative merits of, say, a piece of plumbing equipment and a gerbil. Where do you start?

The four artists on the short list for the award -- worth 25,000 pounds ($39,677) to the winner and 5,000 pounds each to the three runners-up -- tend to have less in common than that.