Philip Kennicott
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.

Latest by Philip Kennicott

The world doesn’t end

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

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

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

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.