Why try to fix the Turner Prize when it ain’t broke?

This years Turner Prize shortlist marks the most significant shift in the award for 25 years: the age limit of 50, established in 1991 and in place ever since, has been abolished. In a press conference on 3 May, the jurys chair and Tate Britains director, Alex Farquharson, said that age limit originally helped the prize define itself as an award for a breakthrough moment in a more emerging artists career. But now this remit is so well established, I think we can safely acknowledge that artists