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Elsie McCabe Thompson was a advocate of her husband’s narrowly unsucessful campaign against Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. When ever she talked to reporters she made sure to talk about a something dear to her heart: the Museum for African Art. After more than ten years of Mrs. Thompson’s determination toward a impossible quest, she is preparing to open the museum’s new $95 million home on upper Fifth Avenue next spring. Continue reading →