Sebastian Smee

Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at the Washington Post and the author of The Art of Rivalry. Formerly the chief art critic at the Boston Globe and national art critic for the Australian, he has also written for the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, and the Independent, among other publications. His newest book is Paris in Ruins, is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2024 and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024. He lives in Boston.

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May 19, 2025