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☆ One family’s battle to be reunited with art looted by the Nazis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Aurore Laborie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

The lawyer — Laurence Eisenstein, whose firm works to recover artwork looted by the Nazis — said he’d been speaking to a British scholar who’d come across the name René Gimpel in art collectors’ archives. Thousands of objects lost or lootedAs well as being a famous gallerist of his time, René Gimpel was a very well-connected man. Captured sometime between 1916 and 1933, it showed the three Derain paintings in question hanging on the art dealer’s wall. In 2020, seven years after they began their fight, the Gimpel heirs were finally reunited with the three Derain paintings. Dumas said this is often not the case for Jewish families trying to recover their ancestors’ stolen art.

Persons: Claire Gimpel’s, — Laurence Eisenstein, —, he’d, who’d, René, Eisenstein, Claire, Ian Locke, ” Claire, he’s, André Derain, Claude Monet, René Gimpel, Clarisse Vuitton, Louis Vuitton’s, Monet, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, Johannes Vermeer, ”, Monte, Odile Firer, — René, — Locke, Hôtel Doucet, ’, “ I’m, Palais Bourbon —, Locke, “, Crécy, Corinne Hershkovitch, ” Hershkovitch, Sarah Tilotta, Margaux Dumas, Diderot, Derain, Benoît Payan, Payan, Dumas, Marseille's, Benoit Payan, Gimpel, Alain Robert, SIPA, They’re Organizations: France CNN —, CNN, Gestapo, Europe —, Palais Bourbon, Chapelle, Ministry of Culture, French Ministry of Culture, University Paris, Technical University Berlin, Smithsonian Archives, American Art, Mayor, French Ministry of, Belgium ”, ” Locations: Paris, France, British, French, Gimpel, Vichy France, Cannes, French Vichy, Neuengamme, Hamburg, Europe, Spontini, German, Nice, Troyes, Marseille, René’s Paris, Vichy, Belgium

☆ The iconic Hermés Birkin handbag that costs north of $10,000 was conceived on an airplane sickness bag
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jane Birkin, the inspiration behind the iconic Birkin bag, died inside her Paris home on Sunday. The Birkin handbag was conceived by Birkin herself, who was found dead at her home in Paris on Sunday. Birkin told Leitch that Hermés paid her an annual royalty of £30,000 in 2011, which currently works out as $39,000. Years later, the Birkin handbag has taken on a life of its own and is now seen as a status symbol. Some of its pricer models, including the crocodile and diamond-encrusted Birkin bags, can cost as much as $200,000 according to Sotheby's.

Persons: Jane Birkin, Birkin, Luke Leitch, Jean, Louis Dumas –, Leitch, Dumas, Hermés, Bijou Birkin – Organizations: Service, Air France Locations: Wall, Silicon, Paris, London, 2o18

☆ Meet the 33-year-old Canadian chemist and the renowned MIT professor who are building the 'electric vehicle of cement making'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

An electric vehicle replaces a combustion engine with an electric motor, and that's what Sublime Systems does in the cement-making process. So he moved to eastern Canada, where they don't have a lot of rabbis," Ellis told CNBC of her father's move. And I think we both sort of gravitate to things that are challenging," Ellis told CNBC. I think the best way we have to get around fossil fuels is to use electrons," Ellis told CNBC. There will be numerous approaches, all of which have challenges and most of which deserve to be tested," Chiang told CNBC.

Persons: Leah Ellis, Ming Chiang, Ellis, Chiang, Sublime, she's, haven't, It's, Leah Ellis Ellis, it's, Mark Mutter, Mutter, Clay Dumas, Dumas, Katie Rae, Rae, Timothy McCaffery, McCaffery, Scott Carmichael It's, I'm Organizations: Sublime Systems, Sublime, CNBC, Battery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bloomberg, Getty, Jamcem Consulting, LowerCarbon, Siam Cement, SCG, American Society for Testing Locations: Texas, South Africa, Israel, Jerusalem, Canada, Houston , Texas, Europe, Boston, Africa

☆ Special Report: In France, minority communities decry a surge in police fines
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Layli Foroudi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +18 min

Hassan Bouchouf received fines on more than two dozen occasions, according to the town’s fine data. The Essonne police department didn’t respond to questions about the fines received by Assam and Bouchouf. After learning of the April 2020 fines, Assam verbally confronted Dumas on the street later that same month, according to both men and a witness. That prompted a review by the prosecutor’s office, which found that police had issued fines to Assam remotely, that person said. The watchdog is investigating about 10 complaints alleging improper police fines, mostly from Paris, according to a person familiar with the matter.

☆ Action on climate change can provide a shot in the arm for the global economy, economist says
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-26 | by ( Jonathan Keane | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In a recent note, Charles Dumas, chief economist at U.K.-based investment research firm TS Lombard, said that action on climate change is often criticized as moving too slowly. "Effectively by 2030 the cost of renewable electricity is going to be half that of coal and gas sourced electricity," Dumas told CNBC. COP26 prioritiesAmid this backdrop, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP26, will meet in Glasgow in November. While the developing world, including several African nations, has great potential in developing sites for generating solar power, that power needs to move easily. Both in developed and developing countries, you can provide labor intensive employment through renewable energy," Steele said.

☆ Editura Litera publică autobiografia actriţei Maia Morgenstern: „Nu sunt eu“, cu fotografii în premieră din viaţa artistei
▼ + stars: | 1962-05-01 | by ( Otilia Andrei | ) adevarul.ro time to read: +2 min

„Sunt poveşti ascunse, poveşti de care îmi e frică, nu de puţine ori. Pentru că revin cu putere, mă târăsc fără putinţă de scăpare într-o lume pe cât de preţuită, pe atât de pierdută. Amintirile mele sunt nişte izbucniri de tandreţe, pusee de febră a nostalgiei, episoade ale unei revolte târzii.” - Maia Morgenstern. Este repartizată la Teatrul Tineretului din Piatra Neamţ, apoi revine la Bucureşti, unde joacă la Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat şi la Teatrul Naţional. Pe scena TNB se remarcă în spectacole precum O trilogie antică, după Euripide şi Seneca, Dama cu camelii după Al.

Persons: Maia Morgenstern, Dem Rădulescu, Lucian Pintilie, Liviu Ciulei, Andrei Şerban, Theo Angelopoulos, Marta Mészáros, Mel Gibson, Euripide, Seneca, Dama, . Dumas, F . Dürrenmatt, Lola Blau, G ., P . Kohout, Hristos, Emma Organizations: Academiei Europene, UNITER, Artelor, Parlamentul Locations: Bucureşti, IATC, Piatra, Franţa, Strasbourg

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