James Cuno will doubtless take some time to decide how to put his unique stamp on the Art Institute of Chicago, but there’s one improvement he’d like to make right away: minimizing “museum fatigue” by adding more benches and chairs for patrons to take a load off while admiring the collection. It seems like an obvious idea, but many museum directors are opposed to having seating in their galleries, saying it distracts from the art. Nonsense, says Cuno. Museumgoers tend to “rush their way through and they don’t see as much as we’d like them to see. You want people to sit down and feel comfortable and sort of pace themselves.”