{"id":51193,"date":"2025-11-25T01:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51193\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:56:04","slug":"new-york-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-names-arts-and-culture-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51193\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Names Arts and Culture Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNew York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, who decisively beat back independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election to lead the city earlier this month, has named an arts and culture transition committee. The 28-member group includes curators, art dealers, journalists, and arts and nonprofit administrators. It ranges from Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon Foundation, which sits on an endowment of $7.7 billion, to Hannah Traore<\/a>, who launched a 3,000-square-foot gallery on the Lower East Side not four years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFamiliar names on the committee include Kimberly Drew, curatorial director at global megagallery Pace; Ruba Katrib, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at MoMA PS1; Legacy Russell, executive director and chief curator at the Kitchen; and Gonzalo Casals, a former commissioner of cultural affairs for New York City.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMamdani gained support from some in the arts community during his campaign. As Artnet News reported<\/a>, Mamdani was popular among the downtown crowd, with dealer Elyse Derosia cohosting a fundraising event for him ahead of the primary. Artists and creators like Martine Syms, Ser Serpas, and Michael Stipe showed up, per Artnet, which quoted Dean as saying, \u201cI think his platform resonates because most people \u2018downtown\u2019 are feeling the squeeze of a New York City unconcerned with its working class.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMany in the art world rejoiced when Mamdani trounced Cuomo. New York Times contributor Siddhartha Mitter, artist Laurie Simmons, critic Jerry Saltz, and even El Museo del Barrio raised their voices<\/a> in celebration on social media.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe full transition committee follows below. <\/p>\n

\n\tHiba Abid, New York Public Library<\/p>\n

\n\tElizabeth Alexander, Mellon Foundation<\/p>\n

\n\tSuroosh Alvi, Vice<\/p>\n

\n\tJessica Baker, Vodoor Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden<\/p>\n

\n\tAlexis Bittar, Jewelry Designer<\/p>\n

\n\tRocky Bucano, Hip Hop Museum<\/p>\n

\n\tGonzalo Casals, Culture & Arts Policy Institute<\/p>\n

\n\tCarolyn Concepcion, ARTNOIR<\/p>\n

\n\tColm Dillane, KidSuper<\/p>\n

\n\tKimberly Drew, Pace Gallery<\/p>\n

\n\tAtiba Edwards, Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum<\/p>\n

\n\tKamilah Forbes, Apollo Theatre<\/p>\n

\n\tLisa Gold, Asian American Arts Alliance<\/p>\n

\n\tJenna Hamed, curator and book maker<\/p>\n

\n\tKemi Ilesanmi, KG1<\/p>\n

\n\tWes Jackson, BRIC<\/p>\n

\n\tRuba Katrib, MoMA PS1<\/p>\n

\n\tCoco Killingsworth, Cultural Institutions Group<\/p>\n

\n\tMino Lora, The Peoples Theatre<\/p>\n

\n\tPatricia McGregor, NY Theatre Workshop<\/p>\n

\n\tLydia Pilcher, Cine Mosaic<\/p>\n

\n\tVictoria Rogers, Leadership Strategist<\/p>\n

\n\tHal Rosenbluth, Kaufman Astoria Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tLegacy Russell, the Kitchen<\/p>\n

\n\tKenny Savoca, IATSE 161<\/p>\n

\n\tHannah Traore, Hannah Traore Gallery<\/p>\n

\n\tDiya Vij, Powerhouse Arts<\/p>\n

\n\tDennis Walcott, Queens Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who decisively beat back independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-51193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}