Michelle Young
Author, journalist, entrepreneur. Books: THE ART SPY forthcoming @HarperOneBooks, SECRET NEW YORK. Founder @UntappedNY Professor @ColumbiaGSAPP @newmarkjschool
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4 days ago |
untappedcities.com | Michelle Young
Become a paid member to listen to this article As part of an earlier research, we worked with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Archive to locate these photos from 1935, when the Washington Square Park fountain (in its earlier form and location) was converted into a wading pool! Renovation of the fountain took place in 1934, on the initiative of Robert Moses, who is otherwise reviled for his plan to put a highway through Greenwich Village.
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1 month ago |
6sqft.com | Michelle Young
All photos courtesy Municipal Archives, City of New YorkIn the interwar years in New York City, the cultural epicenter of New York, particularly its art galleries, was centered around 57th Street. One block, in particular, between Fifth and Madison Avenues was the crème de la crème of addresses. Today, the short 450-foot stretch is populated by luxury brands like Tiffany’s, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Christian Dior, and Burberry.
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untappedcities.com | Michelle Young
Become a paid member to listen to this article The American Fine Arts Society building, home to the Art Students League, is a landmarked gem at 215 West 57th Street, its front doors swinging open at frequent and regular intervals, offering a glimpse of the teeming creative life that still hums inside.
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1 month ago |
hyperallergic.com | Michelle Young
Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland (2025) by Michelle Young, published by HarperOne (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) and available online. The day after the armistice was signed, Hitler celebrated his triumph with an outing to Paris. The visit was not for military purposes — he left that to his generals — but for his one true love: art.
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1 month ago |
hyperallergic.com | Michelle Young
TELLURIDE, Colorado — “I’m the last of the Mohicans,” ruminates David Cassirer from the dining room of his modest frontier-style house in the mountains. David is the last surviving heir of the Nazi-looted Camille Pissarro painting “Rue Saint-Honoré, après midi, effet de Pluie” (1897), the subject of a serpentine legal case that has wound up and down the American court system for the last 25 years.
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In print in @Newsday, my hometown newspaper! The summer reads book list with The Art Spy on top. It’s hits different when it’s the paper you read at the bagel shop growing up! https://t.co/YCPBEDITkj
11 years ago I got married at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in the Berkshires Now I’m back for their gala as one of their summer artists. I’ll be giving kicking off their summer author series on July 7 and 8 talking The Art Spy and Rose Valland! https://t.co/vZpYVWF7Fm
Readworthy by @BookBub has selected The Art Spy as the top of this season’s top non fiction picks. 🤩 to be in company with Ron Chernow, @JakeTapper & @alxthomp, Rick Atkinson, @natebargatze and others https://t.co/cmlJJITCqs