French artist discovers US by painting a stranger a week

BOSTON (AP) — New to Boston, Parisian artist Aurélie Galois took a deep breath, gathered her oil paints and ventured forth on a unique mission to get acquainted with her adoptive city: Every Friday, for an entire year, she painted a portrait of a stranger.
Along the way, she poked holes in her own preconceptions about Americans. The results — “Friday Face,” a collection of all 52 spontaneous works and the poignant handwritten vignettes Galois scribbled about each o