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"Some city dwellers live for the weekends, when they can escape to the country or the beach. Thelma Golden isn&amp;#039;t one of them. The director and chief curator of Manhattan&amp;#039;s Studio Museum in Harlem is a self-professed urbanite who regularly travels to London\u2014where her husband, Nigeria-born fashion designer Duro Olowu, lives\u2014and points farther, such as Dakar, Senegal, a favorite. But it is her hometown of New York (she&amp;#039;s from Queens) that has had the greatest effect, informing her career choice from an early age. &amp;quot;I grew up going to museums,&amp;quot; Golden says. &amp;quot;I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.&amp;quot; She cut her teeth at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she made a splash showcasing minority artists. For the past decade at the Studio Museum she has promoted both emerging and overlooked artists of African descent.  Consummately chic, the petite Golden stays in shape with a trampoline and by practicing yoga. She loves to entertain and collects books the way others might shoes. She also has a soft spot for the scent of a particular flower. &amp;quot;As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother,&amp;quot; she recalls. &amp;quot;So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.&amp;quot; Click here to see the 12 things Thelma Golden can&amp;#039;t live without. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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