Düsseldorf Luxury Department Store “Carsch-Haus” Faces Uncertain Future as Construction Halted

Düsseldorf Luxury Department Store “Carsch-Haus” Faces Uncertain Future as Construction Halted

Düsseldorf – First the Elbtower, now the Carsch House? The traditional “Carsch-Haus” was actually supposed to reopen in Düsseldorf in spring 2025. It would then be the fourth luxury department store of the KaDeWe Group, which also includes the shopping temple of the same name in the capital. But then the Signa bankruptcy (49 percent … Read more

City Visitors to be Surveyed on Shopping Habits and Tram Usage in Neuss

City Visitors to be Surveyed on Shopping Habits and Tram Usage in Neuss

Visitors to the city center should expect to be spoken to next Saturday. Neuss Marketing, in coordination with the Office of City Planning, is surveying the shopping habits of city visitors for the 14th time since 2008. Questions are also asked about the free use of tram line 709 between the main train station and … Read more

Olischar/Juraczka ad World Heritage Site: Mayor Ludwig is once again lacking answers

Olischar/Juraczka ad World Heritage Site: Mayor Ludwig is once again lacking answers

Arbitrariness, arbitrariness and lack of transparency – Vienna People’s Party demands comprehensive clarification Vienna (OTS) – “The fact is: The details of what the city is now planning in connection with the Heumarkt case following the decisions of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh are being withheld from politicians and the public. And the open … Read more

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism: Celebrating African-American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism: Celebrating African-American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Le Figaro with AFP Posted 16 minutes ago The Woman in Blue, a work by William Henry Johnson, is one of the artists exhibited at the Met. HANDOUT / AFP Beginning next February, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will feature 160 works of modern art from historic black universities, art centers and foundations, for … Read more

New York returns 42 looted archaeological works worth $3.5 million to Italy

New York returns 42 looted archaeological works worth .5 million to Italy

By Le Figaro with AFP Posted 1 hour ago, Just Updated The returned works were presented at a press conference last September. BRENDAN MCDERMID / REUTERS The US state is actively campaigning to find and return works looted from around the world by highly organized smuggling networks. New York justice returned this Tuesday, August 8 … Read more

Stars and Fans Gather in Paris to Pay Tribute to Jane Birkin

Stars and Fans Gather in Paris to Pay Tribute to Jane Birkin

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon and many personalities paid tribute to the singer and actress during a ceremony broadcast live in the streets of Paris. It is barely nine o’clock in the morning and already the voice of Jane Birkin and her most emblematic songs resound in the streets of the first arrondissement of Paris. On … Read more

Daring Theft of Rare Celtic Gold Coins from Bavarian Museum: Four Germans Arrested

Daring Theft of Rare Celtic Gold Coins from Bavarian Museum: Four Germans Arrested

Four Germans were arrested in connection with the daring theft of a rare batch of coins from oror Celts from a Bavarian museum in November 2022, some of which were likely melted down, authorities said July 20. The men, between the ages of 42 and 50 and with long suspected burglary records, were arrested the … Read more

Photographer Lynn Goldsmith Wins Royalties for Andy Warhol’s Transformation of Her Picture of Prince in Landmark Supreme Court Case

Photographer Lynn Goldsmith Wins Royalties for Andy Warhol’s Transformation of Her Picture of Prince in Landmark Supreme Court Case

The photographer wins her fight against the Andy Warhol Foundation and will receive many royalties for the transformation of her picture of Prince by the painter, icon of Pop Art. By Le Figaro with AFP Posted on 05/18/2023 at 5:15 p.m.update on 05/18/2023 at 17:18 This content is not accessible. Supreme Court rules Lynn Goldsmith … Read more

Former Auto Châssis International factory in Villeurbanne to become 2-hectare public park

Former Auto Châssis International factory in Villeurbanne to become 2-hectare public park

(© inui) Located in Croix-Luizet, the former factory should eventually accommodate a public park of 2 hectares. In Croix-Luizet, the former Auto Châssis International (ACI) factory, delimited by the streets Alexis-Perroncel, Yvonne, Edouard-Vaillant and Peru, is the subject of an urban development project initiated by the City, Lyon Metropolis and BNP Paribas Immobilier. This industrial … Read more

Resisting the Demolition: The Fight to Save Social Housing in Roubaix’s Alma-Gare District

Resisting the Demolition: The Fight to Save Social Housing in Roubaix’s Alma-Gare District

“We will not leave”: in Roubaix, in the priority district of Alma-gare, a collective is resisting the planned demolition of hundreds of social housing units, built in the 1980s following a historic mobilization of the inhabitants , co-authors of a “reference” layout. “To raze these buildings, built according to the wishes of the inhabitants 40 … Read more