Sebastian Smee

Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Washington Post and the author of Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011 while at the Boston Globe and taught non-fiction writing at Wellesley College from 2010-2022. Smee was awarded the Rabkin Prize for art journalism in 2018 and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2021. He wrote The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art (2016) as well as several books on Lucian Freud and one on Mark Bradford.