"Read/Eat/Chat,” the Museum’s art themed book club, will meet at noon on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Read the book, bring a lunch and discuss! 

Members FREE / $5 Non-members

Upcoming Discussions:

January 19
Clara and Mr. Tiffany
by Susan Vreeland

February 16
Stealing Rembrandts
by Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg

March 15
The Rape of Europa
by Lynn H. Nicholas

April 19
Seven Days in the Art World
by Sarah Thornton

May 17
Americans in Paris
by David McCullough

June 21
Luncheon of the Boating Party
by Susan Vreeland

July 19
The Madonnas of Leningrad
by Debra Dean

August
Gilded: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort
by Debra Davis

September 20
Leaving Van Gogh
by Carol Wallace

October 18
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White

November 15
The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
by Philip Mould

Previous Discussions:

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art, by Laney Salisbury

Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed & Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Michael Gross

Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Danny Danziger

The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Patricia Vigderman

The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft, by Ulrich Boser

Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X, by Deborah Davis