James Cuno has made an impact in his first year running the Chicago Art Institute. “He has been at the institute just over a year, which once was thought too little time for any head of a major art museum to make felt his or her presence. But recent thinking in the profession has tended toward making changes rapidly during the first year, while a director enjoys the strongest trustee support, and that’s the way a number of former institute curators proceeded in directorships elsewhere, with mixed results.”