New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Laurie Cumbo as the new head of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, despite pushback from community leaders:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams Appoints Laurie Cumbo as Culture Czar, Despite Pushback From Community LeadersFormer NYC Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo at the unveiling of the Spanish Memorial Plaque in Fort Greene Park.
Cumbo will now spearhead the United States’s largest municipal funder of the arts, distributing more money each year than the National Endowment for the Arts. She will take over for Gonzalo Casals, who resigned from the post in December 2021, at the end of Bill de Blasio’s mayoral term. One of its tenets is to create a new cultural district on Governors Island and a “‘Culture at Risk’ response team to protect New York City’s creative businesses and neighborhood institutions.”reported that Cumbo faced “potential resistance” to the appointment due, in part, to her opposition to a bill that passed at the end of her time in City Council which would allow noncitizens to vote.
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