POLITICS: The Next NEA Chair II
Ray Mark Rinaldi writes in the Denver Post to describe the vacancy at the top of the NEA: [Rocco Landesman's] departure gives President Obama a chance to put someone new in the job, a leader who can operate less in fear of being called to the Capitol to explain a grant for an offbeat performance art piece and more toward carrying a banner that puts culture back at the forefront of American identity. Some acto…