Sophie Lynford is the Theodore Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art, Harvard Art Museums

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Thomas McKeller (detail) (1917–21), John Singer Sargent. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

‘Thomas McKeller was singular among Sargent’s pantheon of models’

What did it mean for a wildly successful artist to paint a black elevator operator in stuffy Boston society?

26 Mar 2020

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The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931), at the San Francisco Art Institute.

A Diego Rivera mural is the San Francisco Art Institute’s prize asset – but that doesn’t mean it should be sold

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A decade after the uprisings that led to the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the clocks he loved remain

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A Diego Rivera mural is the San Francisco Art Institute’s prize asset – but that doesn’t mean it should be sold