A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny.

The painter made his name as the preeminent portraitist of Edwardian England’s wealthy. The Wertheimer family took a special ...

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Jean Strouse’s “Family Romance” recounts Sargent’s relationship with the Wertheimers, a family that played a major role in ...

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some ...

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In “Family Romance,” Jean Strouse conjures the singular relations between the portrait artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and the Wertheimers, a prominent Jewish family whose commissions ...

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The Boston Public Library's Triumph of Religion gallery includes a mural that the city's early Jewish community took issue ...

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas.