The NY Times is reporting that Obama has hired Kareem Dale to be in charge of the arts portfolio temporarily. Dale is a lawyer from Chicago and was appointed special assistant to Obama for disability policy. People from both the art and disability camps are disappointed with the decision, each hoping that they would have an advocate in the White House to call their own, and instead they will have to share. Before Dale, there was talk of hiring a Cabinet level secretary of the arts (an idea proposed by Quincy Jones), and there was an online petition created in support of it.
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