Sebastian Smee at The Kreeger Museum

Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Washington Post who will be speaking about his recent book, "Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism," which tells the story of the impressionist painters who lived through a catastrophic year in Paris in 1870-71. Smee won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011 while at the Boston Globe and taught non-fiction writing at Wellesley College from 2010-2022. He 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), which was translated into a dozen languages, as well as several books on Lucian Freud and one on Mark Bradford. 

About The Marilyn Lichtman Distinguished Speaker Series: The Marilyn Lichtman Distinguished Speaker Series brings leaders in art communities and institutions across the world to The Kreeger Museum to engage with audiences on a multitude of issues relating to art and contemporary culture.