ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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 GlobeThe AustralianThe MonthlyThe GuardianThe IndependentThe TimesThe Financial Times and The Spectator.

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We are all doing it, aren’t we? It has come to feel completely normal. Even when I put my device aside and attach it to a charger, it pulses away in my mind, like the throat of a toad, full of blind, amphibian appetite. 
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