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De Blasio Brings Hope For A Populist Arts Revival

Will New York City See A Populist Arts Revival?
Katherine Brooks
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Deputy Enterprise Editor, Culture, HuffPost

FILE - This Oct. 7, 2013, file photo, shows an interior room at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence, in New York. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio ended weeks of speculation by announcing Wednesday Dec., 11, 2013, that his family would move Gracie Mansion, after debating whether to move to the Manhattan mansion or stay in their beloved Brooklyn neighborhood. No one has lived in Gracie Mansion since Rudolph Giuliani left office in 2001. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - This Oct. 7, 2013, file photo, shows an interior room at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence, in New York. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio ended weeks of speculation by announcing Wednesday Dec., 11, 2013, that his family would move Gracie Mansion, after debating whether to move to the Manhattan mansion or stay in their beloved Brooklyn neighborhood. No one has lived in Gracie Mansion since Rudolph Giuliani left office in 2001. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

When Laurie Cumbo, the founder of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, was planning a trip to Ghana for her curators, she turned to a friend and longtime patron: Chirlane McCray.

Ms. McCray, a frequent guest at the museum’s exhibitions, immediately contacted her brother, a professor who lives in Ghana, and asked him to arrange an itinerary for the group, which specializes in art about African emigration and identity.

That was two years ago. On Wednesday, Ms. McCray’s husband, Bill de Blasio, will be sworn in as mayor — and Ms. Cumbo said she was a bit giddy about the prospect of a City Hall so familiar with a small minnow in the city’s vast cultural sea.

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