When the UK’s new culture minister approached the “comments board” for this year’s Turner Prize finalists, he was surely remembering the uproar that ensued three years ago, when then-minister Kim Howells scrawled a profane condemnation of the prize and its organizers, sparking a general uproar (and quite a bit of muttered support from a public that had grown to loathe the conceptual art-heavy Turner.) There can be no question that current minister David Lammy did not repeat Howells’ mistake. But in his caution, he may have forgotten to say anything at all.