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Emmanuelle Polack with her research materials at the Louvre Museums Centre du Dominique-Vivant Denon in Paris, June 23, 2021. Polack is the face of the French museums efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation. Joann Pai/The New York Times.
by Elaine Sciolino
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In a frenzied, four-day auction in the grand hall of the Savoy Hotel in Nice in June 1942, buyers bid on paintings, sculptures and drawings from the cabinet of a Parisian art lover. Among the 445 pieces for sale were works by Degas, Delacroix, Renoir and Rodin. The administrator monitoring the sale, appointed by the French collaborationist Vichy regime, and René Huyghe, a paintings curator at the Louvre, knew the real identity of the art lover: Armand Isaac Dorville, a successful Parisian lawyer. They also knew that he was Jewish. After Hitlers armies invaded and occupied Paris in 1940, the Vichy g
Artspace Projects announces new workforce housing development in Bentonville
New 50-unit development will provide work/live spaces that support Northwest Arkansas creative economy.
BENTONVILLE, ARK
.- Minneapolis-based Artspace Projects announced plans to advance a new 50-unit mixed-use project with live/work housing for artists in downtown Bentonville, the SOMO Artspace Lofts. The medium density workforce housing development will help address critical housing needs in the region. SOMO Artspace Lofts will provide affordable housing for artists, creatives and their families, and provide vital infrastructure to help sustain a rapidly growing creative workforce in an emerging arts destination in the Heartland. A grant from the Walton Family Foundation supported the buildings design.
Cari Romany, 27, was wooed to the new Pullman Artspace Lofts by her mother, a multimedia artist and part-time gallerist. Having lived in St. Louis for the past seven years, moving to be closer to family was an enticing idea for Romany. And the fact that the Pullman complex is a community of artists sealed the deal. “When I moved in here, my neighbor knocked on my door and introduced herself .
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Tempe to transform 5 lots along Apache Boulevard into affordable housing
Work is set to start later this summer on five lots along a stretch of Apache Boulevard in Tempe that will be transformed into affordable housing.