- Philip Kennicott
- Critic
Philip Kennicott is the Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post. He has been on staff at the Post since 1999, first as Chief Classical Music Critic, then as Culture Critic. In 2011 he combined art and architecture into a beat that is focused on everything visual in the nation’s capital.
The world doesn’t end
EXHIBIT | ”Maya 2012: Lords of Time” takes visitors back thousands of years while giving the all hope for the future.
You’d rather it be in Philadelphia
After all the kerfuffle, the Barnes Foundation’s move to a new museum in Philadelphia serves the art, and the art lover, well.
The war over Gehry
When architect Frank Gehry unveiled his vision of Dwight D. Eisenhower
as a “barefoot boy,” the battles over the president’s memorial broke out.
Architecture review: Johns Hopkins Hospital mixes aesthetics and utility
Johns Hopkins Hospital’s addition reflects several of the essential dichotomies of health care: It is driven by both compassion and the bottom line, by sensitivity to the sick and the practical need of physicians to do their work in certain basic, mechanical ways.
- Joan Miro on a higher rung: ‘Ladder of Escape’ at the National Gallery
- Exhibit review: ‘House & Home’ at the National Building Museum
- District’s progressive architecture trend continues
- National Gallery’s ‘I Spy’ examines the assumed reality of candid photography
- The Rant: Whatever happened to discourse?
- Eisenhower Memorial Commission issues statement in support of Frank Gehry
- Hirshhorn Museum’s “Song 1” is all about projection
- Susan Eisenhower denounces designs for presidential monument
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