Events

    Storyslingers Book Group

    Each month, Present Tense features a book and then hosts a Storyslinger discussion group on the last Wednesday of the month. This month the meeting will be Wednesday, June 26 at 7:00 pm.

    The Art Forger

    The Art Forger
    Written by B.A. Shapiro



    Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art theft in history—one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece—the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years—may itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.