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The US first lady is carving out a role as an unofficial culture secretary just months after her husband took office AMERICA’S first lady, Michelle Obama, has added a new string to her bow as “minister of culture” in her husband’s administration. The heads of New York’s most prestigious cultural institutions are in no doubt that she intends to play an active policy-making role in the arts world after they were summoned to meet her last week. “She was speaking in a way the minister of culture would speak, even though such a position doesn’t exist in America,” said Peter...