“Perhaps it’s the momentousness of the task at hand, or maybe it’s trepidation in a new environment, but Landesman — somewhat uncharacteristically — is proceeding cautiously.” Even so, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts “is an unabashed hawk on the issue of money; increased funding, he said, is one of the barriers the NEA needs to overcome if it intends to once more lead the country’s sprawling network of artists and arts organizations.”