On July 14, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo introduced the relaunch of his New York mayoral marketing campaign, this time as a third-party candidate, following his defeat within the Democratic major to Zohran Mamdani.
Cuomo misplaced to Mamdani by 12 share factors on June 24 regardless of an excellent political motion committee (PAC) spending greater than $22 million, the biggest quantity within the metropolis’s historical past. Spending is bound to spike because the candidate’s respective campaigns advance in the direction of November 4, and per a latest ARTnews information evaluation, distinguished artwork world figures have already gotten concerned within the race. Those that made donations to Cuomo’s marketing campaign embrace:
- Helena Grubesic, SVP at Christie’s, $2100
- Erica Downs, Administrator for Watches at Phillips, $2100
- Fahad Malloh, Director of Enterprise Technique for the Workplace of the CEO at Sotheby’s, $1000
- Jennifer Wright, Head of Outdated Grasp Work at Christie’s, $250
- Micol Spinazzi Richter, director at Gagosian, $250
- Laura Aswad, Producer at The Shed, $2100
- Diane Tuft, mixed-media artist and Worldwide Heart for Pictures board member, $2100
- Artwork sellers Nathan Bernstein ($2100), Ramin Fallah ($2100), Vito Schnabel ($2100), Lorinda Ash ($1600), Evan Beard ($1000), Sheri Feigen ($1000) and Iris Cohen ($500)
- Artwork advisors BJ Topol of Topol Childs Artwork Advisory ($1000) and Laura Smith Sweeney ($500)
- Lisa Phillips, New Museum director, $1000
- Dana Wallach Jones, Affiliate Basic Counsel for The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, $1000
- Scott Campbell, Director of Marketing campaign Development on the New Museum, whole of $400
- Seth Rosen, Chief of Improvement on the American LGBTQ+ Museum, $100
Mamdani additionally obtained marketing campaign donations from notable names within the artwork trade, together with:
- Brenda Coughlin, govt director of the Lannan Basis, whole of $2800
- Aziz Isham, govt director of the Museum of Transferring Picture, whole of $200
- Arsh Raziuddin, VP of International Artistic at Christie’s, whole of $250
- Laura Kandle, Director of Museum Operations and Administration on the Asia Society, $129
The next names respectively made donations of lower than $100 to Mamdani’s marketing campaign:
- Curators Josephine Graf and Kari Rittenbach of MoMA PS1, Mia Fineman of the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, Grace Yasumura of the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum, and Yelena Kellery of The Studio Museum in Harlem
- Caitlin Foreht, director at Hauser & Wirth
- Alexandra Inform, interim director at Mishkin Gallery, Baruch Faculty, CUNY
- Alexander Ferrando, director of Kurimanzutto
- Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, senior director at Jack Shainman Gallery
- Lauren Glading, director of Clearing Gallery
- Artists Tauba Auerbach, Thomas Dozol, Joseph Montgomery, Matt Connors, Zoe Leonard, Morgan Bassichis, Salman Toor, Willa Nasatir, Dora Budor, Sanya Kantarovsky, and Chloe Smart
- Andrew Zachery, interdisciplinary artist and assistant arts professor at NYU
- Phil Selway, Los Angeles-based artwork supplier
Mamdani additionally obtained donations from actors Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), Bowen Yang (Saturday Evening Stay), and Cynthia Nixon; in addition to Tony-winning playwright Tony Kushner.
In a extra basic have a look at main donor involvement, the pro-Cuomo Repair the Metropolis superPAC included $5 million from billionaire former mayor Michael Bloomberg, in addition to $250,000 from Prime 200 collector and hedge fund supervisor Daniel Loeb, reported the New York Occasions. By comparability, the pro-Mamdani tremendous PAC New Yorkers for Decrease Prices raised about $1.4 million. (Loeb additionally made a person marketing campaign contribution of $2100.)
On March 24, Gothamist reported that Cuomo raised $1.5 million in comparison with Mamdani’s $1.4 million.
Whereas a big portion of the person donations to Mamdani’s mayoral marketing campaign have been underneath $100, he additionally had considerably increased variety of donations, with greater than 27,600, in comparison with Cuomo’s 6,500, based on publicly accessible information from the New York Metropolis Marketing campaign Finance Board.
Mamdani’s marketing campaign additionally raised greater than $900,000 from metropolis residents eligible for a $8-to-$1 match program; excess of the simply over $330,000 that Cuomo raised that was eligible for a similar program from metropolis residents.
