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Sebastian Smee is the author of The Art of Rivalry and art critic for The Washington Post. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011, and was a runner-up in 2008. His writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Australian, The Monthly, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, The Financial Times and The Spectator.