Rose Valland, The Art Spy Who Saved the Treasures of France

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Rose Valland’s unique role, that of a female spy working on behalf of the French Resistance, has long deserved its own special treatment. Michelle Young’s new book The Art Spy places Valland at the center of the action and illuminates aspects of her personal life and details about her spying methods that have received scant attention in the past.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ Sunday, August 30 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Michelle Young, left, is an award-winning journalist and author. Her latest book, The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of World War II Resistance Hero Rose Valland was named a Best Book of 2025 by the New York Public Library, Library Journal, and Hyperallergic. Michelle’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Airmail, The Forward, Town & Country, and Narratively. She is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is a Professor of Architecture. She is the founder of the publication Untapped New York.

Laurie Gwen Shapiro, right, is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon (Viking, 2025), named one of the year’s best books by NPR, The New Yorker, Smithsonian Magazine, and Amazon. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, and other publications. Shapiro is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she teaches feature writing in the graduate program. In addition to her work as a writer and biographer, she frequently moderates conversations on art, history, media, and culture in New York and beyond.

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Registration will close on Thursday, August 27 at 10 PM ET. Instructions and links will be emailed to all registrants on Friday, August 28 and again on the day of the program.