Tom Finkelpearl, NYC’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, is taking a leave of absence to treat a health issue, the New York Times reports.  “As some of you know,” Finkelpearl wrote later in the day, “I have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma. Serious, indeed, but I am expecting to recover and be back at my job after several courses of Chemo over a number of months.” (more…)