In the latest of a series of interviews this week, new National Endowment for the Arts chairman Daniel Gioia says: “The worst thing I could do is come to Washington and pontificate on things artistic and political. I plan to serve by building a huge new consensus to support the arts. I am not going to do that by dividing people, by polarizing people. Arts education – by which he means broad-based proselytizing for the arts – is not a left or right issue, a Democratic or Republican issue. It’s good civic common sense.”