ANNOUNCING: "THE CLUB" and 2025 TRAVEL!
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ANNOUNCING: "THE CLUB" and 2025 TRAVEL!

B2Upper-intermediateJanuary 28, 20259 min
  • One speaker
  • Arts & culture

It's BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME over here-- and I want ArtCurious listeners to be the first to hear it! Pre-order your copy of Jennifer's new book,The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris-- available in hardcover from Bloomsbury this July! Travel with Jennifer: you have FOUR opportunities in 2025! Spain with Like Minds Travel (May) Paris with Arrangements Abroad (May) Paris with Like Minds Travel (September) Texas with Arrangements Abroad (October) L...

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Hello, hello, Art Curious listeners and longtime subscribers. It's been almost a year, a year, since I essentially shut down this podcast. And while I am not dropping back into your feed today to bring the show back, I know, I know, but bear with me here, I do have a few really fun announcements to share,

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the most important of which will, I'm sure, shed a little bit of light onto the main reason why I retired my audio show a while back. And that is because I have spent the better part of the last few years working on a new book, and it is now available for pre-order. Yes, you heard me.

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This July, Bloomsbury will be releasing my new book. It's called The Club, where American women artists found refuge in Belle Epoque, Paris. This is a deliciously entertaining, never-before-told history of a residence for American women artists in Paris from 1893 to 1914. And you heard that right.

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