Museum Reads: An Art Themed Book Group

Welcome to Museum Reads, the Newport Art Museum’s Art-Themed book group for adults. It’s the same beloved Read/Eat/Chat book group format, with a fresh name. Join us!

Meet Creole Virginie Gautreau, the “it girl” of Paris and the subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous painting, Madame X. Drawing on documents from private collections and other previously unexamined materials, and featuring a cast of characters including Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner, Strapless is a tale of art and celebrity, obsession and betrayal.

Book group this month will meet at the Museum and virtually on Zoom.

We are delighted that author Deborah Davis will join us in conversation virtually!

About the Author

Deborah Davis is the author of 10 books, including My Love Story, which she co- wrote with music legend Tina Turner, Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X, Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball, Gilded: How Newport Became the Richest Resort in America, The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy, Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner that Shocked a Nation, which won the prestigious Phillis Wheatley Award for best work of History in 2013, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Fabritius and the Goldfinch, which Amazon named one of the Best Books of 2014, and The Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic-Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure, the story of Warhol’s kaleidoscopic road-trip to Hollywood and back in 1963.