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Sebastian Smee

Sebastian Smee

Art Critic at The Washington Post

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Perspective | Confined by early praise, Frank Stella found freedom in extravagance - The Washingt...

The artist, who died Saturday, was hailed in his 20s by an establishment fixated on abstraction and purity. He spent the rest of his career producing work that repudiated those limits.
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Review | Why textiles are all the rage in the art world right now -...

Two major exhibitions celebrate how the simple act of weaving can be filled with sophistication, beauty and meaning.
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Christina Ramberg’s suggestive, vexing paintings in retrospective -...

Ramberg’s paintings, displayed in a ravishing retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, are devastatingly cool and suggestive.
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Nicole Eisenman is one of the best American painters working right ...

One of our most celebrated living artists, Nicole Eisenman is the subject of a superb retrospective at the MCA Chicago.
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‘Matisse and the Sea’ shows the artist’s passion for blue - The Was...

“Matisse and the Sea,” an exhibition in St. Louis, examines Henri Matisse’s fascination with the sea over his long career.
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A gem-like show on the Mall reveals Whistler as you’ve never seen h...

A gem-like show at the National Museum of Asian Art shows James McNeill Whistler like you’ve never seen him.
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Appreciating Richard Serra, who made us giddy and afraid. - The Was...

Artist Richard Serra, dead at 85, offered a strange (and strangely intimidating) new way to think about sculpture.

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Review | A superb Whitney Biennial, marred by flimsy politics - The...

The 81st edition of the Whitney Biennial is the best in a decade.
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'Guernica' marked the 1937 bombing. What does it say today? - The W...

Picasso’s “Guernica” has long been called to speak during wartime. Our critic visited Spain to take its measure.
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Keith Haring’s life and work are captured in Brad Gooch’s ‘Radiant’...

Brad Gooch’s new biography, “Radiant,” captures the life of the iconoclastic artist who helped to define 1980s New York before dying at 31.
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Raqib Shaw’s magnificent paintings in “Ballads of East and West” - ...

In “Ballads of East and West,” Raqib Shaw’s magnificent paintings detonated my ideas of taste.