Kennedy Center hunting for new leader

Variety: The Kennedy Center has officially formed a search committee to fill the CEO role occupied for the past 12 years by Michael Kaiser, who will ankle at the end of his contract in December 2014. Search will be co-chaired by Kennedy Center chairman David M. Rubenstein and fellow board member Anthony Welters. In 2010 Kaiser said he would not seek a renewal of his contract but would instead continue through 2017 as prexy of the center's DeVos Institute for Arts Management. Kaiser created the training org, now supported by Betsy and Dick DeVos.