Philip Kennicott is a Senior Art and Architecture Critic at The Washington Post. He specializes in covering art and architecture, with a keen interest in cultural movements, pop culture, and the music business. His insights and critiques have been featured in various prominent publications, including The Spokesman-Review, The Guam Daily Post, and Newsday Media Group.
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Philip Kennicott’s coverage blends cultural criticism with opinionated commentary on major U.S. institutions, museums, and public-facing arts controversies. He appears especially responsive to pitches that connect art, heritage, and policy disputes to larger cultural debates, or that offer sharp context on why a particular development matters now.
He also seems likely to engage with stories involving major cultural venues, orchestras, and exhibition politics, especially when there’s a clear institutional angle or a broader public stakes element.
Given his national U.S. focus, outreach should frame the relevance at a nationwide level rather than a local one.
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The National Gallery of Art is taking a low-key approach to celebrating the country's 250th birthday.
The warning signs the Trump administration has ordered placed along walkways outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History will attest
A lesser-known semiquincentennial project occupies a central square in the nation's capital.
Renovations are welcome. But after two years, the Kennedy Center may end up right back where it started: in a self-imposed quagmire.
By: Jonathan Edwards, Philip Kennicott
The centerpiece orchestra announced its season months later than usual, at venues away from its longtime home.
A State Department attempt to sell an innocuous painting by Kehinde Wiley, painter of a famous Obama portrait and a difficult artist to defend, is the loudest of dog whistles.
By: Philip Kennicott
By Philip Kennicott washington post The Trump administration has made a canny but alarming decision to attack the work of artist Kehinde Wiley.
By: Philip Kennicott
The most haunting photo of the past week shows not a whole human, just part of one. Sometime, in the past few weeks, a 20-year-old college kid named
The chief justice heads the institution's Board of Regents, which will choose Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III's successor.
The changes to our urban design, architecture and everyday life are so profound we can hardly see them.
