About Time for a New NEA Chair, Yes?
Submitted by Tommer on August 7, 2013
A timely question from Patricia Cohen in The New York Times:
More than eight months have elapsed since Mr. Landesman announced that he was stepping down from the nation’s top arts post. The only time a search has taken longer was in 2002, after the conductor and composer Michael P. Hammond died after just six days in office.
Yet the hunt for a replacement — who must be nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress — seems to have stalled, according to people with knowledge of the search, who asked to remain unnamed because of the sensitivity of the subject.