- 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.
- Hirshhorn would go back to square one if Smithsonian bursts the Bubble
- Peter Fischli and David Weiss exhibition displays a fine, light, smart touch
- ‘Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture on the Wall,’ at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, reviewed
- With Hirshhorn Bubble, Smithsonian could break D.C. from stagnation
- With a new member, Emerson String Quartet is still masterful
- Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes: Art review
- Review: Little of substance in PBS’s ‘10 Buildings That Changed America’
- The shifting strategy of preservation: How Civil War battlefields have changed
- ‘Over, Under, Next’ at the Hirshhorn: Art review
- The Corcoran and the University of Maryland: What has happened and what has to happen
- Lecture series at National Gallery of Art seeks to demystify architecture
- Colonial Williamsburg exhibit on painters of the American South
- Boochever Portrait Competition winners
- Art review: Durer at the National Gallery
- Walters Art Museum exhibits Baltimore artist Woodville
- Sackler displaying Cyrus Cylinder, an artifact with long history and many meanings
- Wolfgang Laib’s ‘Wax Room’: Enigmatic permanent installation at the Phillips
- Architect presents plan for Randall School redevelopment in Southwest
- At National Gallery, a look at the Pre-Raphaelites’s forward move backward
- The artistry of George W. Bush
- In defense of the 'Hirshhorn bubble'
- ‘Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet’ review
- ‘Bound for Freedom’s Light: African Americans and the Civil War’
- Kennedy Center additions: A smart response to urban design challenges
- At National Gallery, an indictment and endorsement of the collector’s exhibit
- National Gallery to host one of most anticipated exhibits of spring 2013
- Inaugural reflections on our golden era (or golden years?) of art and politics
- Marcel Duchamp: An art pioneer and the avant-garde he nurtured
- What are we losing in the Web’s images of suffering and schadenfreude?
- Michelangelo’s David-Apollo returns to Washington
- Smithsonian American Art Museum channels Nam June Paik
- Best of 2012 in art, architecture: Miro, ‘Roads of Arabia’ and a plan to rework D.C.’s main library
- ‘Pure Land’ tour: For visitors virtually exploring Buddhist cave, it’s pure fun
- ‘Civil War and American Art’ puts the battle in the background
- Grads of WNO’s American Opera Initiative present original works at Kennedy Center
- Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s son disapproves of proposed memorial design
- Baltimore Museum of Art completes renovation of contemporary galleries
- ‘A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII,’ by Taryn Simon
- ‘Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and “The Life Line” ’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Critic’s Notebook: Obama photo is a snapshot of a modern, equal marriage
- Exhibit review: ‘Poetic Likeness’ at the National Portrait Gallery
- At the Walters, ‘Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe’
- Rooms with a view of Russian artistic history
- Per Kirkeby turns the Phillips into a site of restless digging
- West Heating Plant would make ideal arts center for Georgetown
- As Corcoran sale looms, the silence of its board of directors is disturbing
- In Detroit, a museum’s tax measure raises hope for arts funding
- National Gallery’s ‘Serial Portrait’ show reveals more than faces
- National Gallery’s ‘Imperial Augsburg’ captures artists’ innovation, emperors’ egos
- Ukrainian Famine Memorial raises questions over payment and content
- ‘Shock of the News’ at National Gallery of Art a fascinating cross section of art, news
- District weighs proposals for renovating MLK Library while preserving historic status
- A war of nothing but heroes
- Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation dilemma
- Lichtenstein retrospective and Civil War art highlight 2012-13 season
- Clint Eastwood’s Republican convention speech: Inspired by opera?
- Charlotte Dumas’s ‘Anima’ probes our relationship with animals
- ‘King Roger’ and Karol Szymanowski get a new, accepting production in Santa Fe
- Santa Fe Opera focuses on serious, less well-known works
- ‘Manifest: Armed’ at Corcoran Gallery: A cogent and provocative one-room show
- AIDS at a nexus: As threat of extinction passes, gay community gains perspective
- Phillips Collection to permanently install wax room by Wolfgang Laib
- Critics of Gehry-designed Eisenhower monument step up opposition
- For Corcoran, identity remains its biggest issue
- Five ideas from the Aspen Ideas Festival
- ‘Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series’ at the Corcoran Gallery reviewed
- Bound to be special: D.C. libraries by David Adjaye are stylish additions to distressed areas
- At National Gallery of Art, Willem van Aelst’s object lessons
- Kevin Roche’s architectural legacy on display in National Building Museum show
- ‘Monument Wars’ Puts Eisenhower Memorial Controversy in Context
- War of 1812: The National Portrait Gallery’s ‘A Nation Emerges’ Reviewed
- David Brooks’s criticism of Eisenhower memorial design falls short
- National Gallery takes a holistic view of George Bellows’s art and career
- Eisenhower Memorial Commission delays design hearing
- Corcoran’s proposal to leave its historic quarters is laden with questions about leadership
- Summer highlights at D.C.’s art museums
- Eisenhower family remains opposed to tapestries planned for memorial
- Jasper Johns: Overview of artist’s themes and variations at Phillips Collection
- American Institute of Architecture publishes fifth edition of its indispensible guide to Washington, D.C.
- ‘Maya 2012’ exhibit at Penn Museum focuses on the people, their calendar and the myths
- Barnes Foundation’s new Philadelphia museum, reviewed
- Architect Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial design: The plan and what went wrong
- Johns Hopkins Hospital addition strives to combine whimsy and function
- 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
- Critic’s Review: ‘The Art of Video Games’ at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Chinese painting: Who defines it?
- Dutch portraits exhibit stories of power at the National Gallery
- Hirshhorn’s “Suprasensorial” exhibit lets viewers participate in the art
- Eleanor Callahan, photographic muse for Harry Callahan, dies at 95
- At National Museum of Women in the Arts, ‘Royalists to Romantics’
- Review: Mob Museum opens in Las Vegas
- Holocaust Museum in negotiations to maintain loaned exhibitions
- Annie Leibovitz’s personal ‘Pilgrimage’ feels commercial
- The Rant: Security mania takes away a monumental view
- Review: Phillips Collection show provides perspective to photos’ role in paintings
- National Gallery reopens renovated 19th-century French galleries
- Spring preview — Art: Joan Miro, female artists and the Civil War
- ‘Picasso’s Drawings’ exhibit reveals the amazing early career of the artist
- ‘A Separation,’ Golden Globe-winning Iranian film, offers dose of normality
- ‘Red’: A critic takes the red pencil to the Rothko play
- Cherry Blossom Festival to coincide with $500,000 public art show
- Disasters, protests made 2011 a year to be photographed
- Artist melds art forms, eras and disparate cultures in provocative works
- Helen Frankenthaler, color field painter, dies
- Daniel Feil honored by American Institute of Architects
- Kim Jong Il’s death stirs genuine emotions
- Art review: ‘de Kooning: A Retrospective’ at Museum of Modern Art
- Review: Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial reinvigorates the genre
- Best art and architecture of 2011
- Yo-Yo Ma, a virtuoso at more than the cello
- Joyful gifts from the art world
- ‘Hide/Seek’ one year later: The world moves on, and sometimes forward
- UC Davis pepper-spraying raises questions about role of police
- Critic’s review of ‘Unbuilt Washington’ at the National Building Museum
- Exhibit review: ‘Candida Hofer: Interior Worlds’
- Washington National Opera’s rough ‘Lucia’ needs polishing
- In McPherson Square, Occupy D.C. creates a vibrant brand of urbanism
- In Antico’s bronzes at the National Gallery, more than miniaturism is on display
- Critic’s review: National Gallery’s ‘In the Tower: Mel Bochner’
- Art review: ‘Print by Print: Series From Durer to Lichtenstein’ in Baltimore
- Gertrude Stein in full form at Portrait Gallery
- Images of Gaddafi’s death highlight visual distrust in the digital age
- Eisenhower family calls for timeout in approval of memorial
- Review: Harry Callahan photography exhibit at the National Gallery of Art
- Philip Glass opens Phillips Collection concert series
- Crystal Bridges in Arkansas: A world-class museum from the land of Wal-Mart
- Crystal Bridges art museum wows — and also confuses
- ‘30 Americans’: A challenging study of identity
- Two new exhibitions show how Andy Warhol defined — and denied — his genius
- (E)merge art fair adapts site’s form and function
- Art review: The Pastrana Tapestries at the National Gallery
- Fall arts: Two Warhol exhibits and the (E)merge Art Fair kick off the season
- 9/11 memorial at Shanksville is minimalistic but evocative and compelling
- Review: 9/11 Memorial in New York
- MLK Memorial review: Stuck between the conceptual and literal
- Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech check metaphor should not be forgotten
- How Rembrandt saw Jesus
- Smithsonian’s ‘Great American Hall of Wonders’ is a missed opportunity
- ‘Faberge Revealed’ at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- DeSouza essay ‘in response to’ Art Speak
- Samuel Morse’s painting ‘Gallery of the Louvre’ on display at National Gallery
- Art has yet to face up to homosexuality
- An escapist exhibition about escapism
- San Francisco Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle is ambitious, brilliant
- Two new Phillips Collection exhibitions involve tie between abstraction and music
- Egyptian artists unite to preserve new freedoms
- Not at peace with building’s style
- Bahrain’s Pearl Statue is gone, but it remains an icon of democracy
- Political turmoil mars Bahrain’s arts and culture reputation
- Art review: John Taylor Arms at National Gallery
- One-man show: How Osama bin Laden impacted American culture in the 21st century
- In Bahrain, government crackdown hits middle-class Shiites hard
- Egypt archaeologist Zahi Hawass faces criticisms about his job, ties to Mubarak
- Gabriel Metsu at the National Gallery, out-Vermeering Vermeer
- 2011 Mellon Lectures feature Mary Beard’s take on ‘12 Caesars’
- Seeing tragedy in Japan, through the camera’s double lens
- ‘To Make a World,’ as glimpsed by painter George Ault
- Kennedy Center failing to reach its artistic potential
- Chagall, through the lens of Paris
- Noah’s Ark replica shows conservative Christians are embracing green building
- ‘Gauguin: Maker of Myth’ at National Gallery
- Canaletto's paintings showed more than the tourist side of Venice
- Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips
- Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips
- National Treasures: Google Art Project unlocks riches of world's galleries
- National Treasures: Google Art Project unlocks riches of world's galleries
- Discord and democracy: What we can learn about Cairo from Puccini's 'Tosca'
- Discord and democracy: What we can learn about Cairo from Puccini's 'Tosca'
- A Victorian fantasy, in stone
- 'Downton Abbey' site Highclere Castle: Victorian architectural fantasy in stone
- In Miami, the shape of things to come
- Architecture review: Miami's new concert hall, designed by Frank Gehry
- One of the best things for D.C. in decades
- New libraries bring contemporary look to District neighborhoods
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