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SUMMARY:Rose Valland\, The Art Spy Who Saved the Treasures of France
DESCRIPTION:1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK\nRose 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. \n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ 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. \nxxxxx \nTo order a signed and inscribed copy of The Art Spy\, click here.\nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\n \nMichelle 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. \n \nLaurie 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. \nxxxxx \nRegistration 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.
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SUMMARY:Girl in Blue — The Nazi Looting and Post-War Recovery of Renoir's Portrait of a Jewish Girl in Paris
DESCRIPTION:11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK\nIn 1941\, a specialized German looting unit in France plundered one of Renoir’s most haunting masterworks: La Petite Irène. In her deeply researched new book\, The Girl in Blue — Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased\, author Doreen Carvajal reconstructs the intertwined wartime journeys of Irène Cahen d’Anvers — the Jewish model who survived in Nazi-occupied Paris while members of her family were deported and murdered — and of her famous portrait that was looted and passed through Hermann Göring’s hands. Their paths converge in a story of beauty and betrayal ― the painting a silent witness to what history tried to erase.\n \nxxxxx \nTHE SCHEDULE\n⇒ Sunday\, November 15 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time\, tune into the program with our distinguished speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.xxxx \nxxxxx \nMEET THE SPEAKERS\nDoreen Carvajal\, author of The Girl in Blue — Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased\, is a journalist and author who worked for more than twenty-five years at The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times\, reporting from Europe on culture\, media\, and international affairs. Her first book\, The Forgetting River\, traced her search for her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in southern Spain. She lives outside Paris in Impressionism country in a stone farmhouse. \n \nChristopher C. Gorham\, who will be in conversation with Doreen Carvajal\, is a lawyer\, educator\, and acclaimed author of Matisse at War\, winner of the 20th Annual Marfield Prize\, the National Award for Arts Writing\, and The Confidante\, a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, Literary Hub\, History Now\, and elsewhere. He lives in Boston and is a frequent speaker at conferences\, literary events\, classrooms and book club gatherings around the country. \nxxxx \nRegistration for this program will open at a later date.
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