The Boston Globe

The education of John Singer Sargent

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because I‘ve never ...
Town & Country

Inside the Met’s Blockbuster Show on John Singer Sargent

How does a young American artist move to Paris, make friends and influence people, incite a scandal, and then keep on painting? With a little help from his friends. Courtesy of MFA Boston, Musee ...
The New York Times

Sargent and ‘Madame X’ Return, Notorious as Ever

“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale. By Karen Rosenberg The preternaturally astute portrait ...
The Washington Post

Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris” exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In 1884, a decade ...
The Economist

John Singer Sargent, portraitist of the posh, is back in vogue

“Detestable! Boring! Curious! Monstrous!” the crowds shouted. “Madame X” (pictured) scandalised visitors to the Paris Salon in 1884, with her heavy make-up and tight black gown whose strap was ...
The New York Times

A New View of John Singer Sargent’s American Socialites

The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that label to their achievements and inner lives. By Claire Moses Reporting from ...
New York Sun

Once the Stuff of Scandal, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Draws a Prominent Place in the Met’s ‘Sargent and Paris’

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...