Philip Kennicott

Art and architecture criticWashington, D.C.

The latest from Philip

Tsuji Kako, Super Bowl, Art Wager, Seattle Art Museum, Frederic Remington

  • Jan 31, 2014

Authors in new book claim Phillips’ Van Gogh is fogery; Museum dispustes it.

  • Jan 31, 2014

A National Gallery exhibition opening May 11 will show how the two artists influenced each other’s work.

  • Jan 31, 2014

President Obama disses Art History majors

  • Jan 30, 2014

  • Jan 23, 2014

A judge said it was beyond his authority to let creditors create a board to value museum holdings.

  • Jan 22, 2014

The artist, whose “Dinner Party” once caused uptight Washington to send its regrets, returns to D.C.

  • Jan 18, 2014

Chicago and the need for women artists to known the history of women artists.

  • Jan 17, 2014

D.C.’s Metro receives architect award.

  • Jan 16, 2014

Charles Marville photo exhibit shows the transformation of 19th-century Paris. It wasn’t always pretty.

  • Dec 27, 2013

Firms will present plans to make the problematic but significant MLK building a “knock-your-socks-off” site.

  • Dec 23, 2013

“Extreme Measures,” his show at the New Museum, gives a much-needed shot in the arm to real masculinity.

  • Dec 20, 2013

George Zimmerman’s painting of an American flag for sale on EBay.

  • Dec 17, 2013

Portland Museum of Art to display most expensive painting sold at auction -- a triptych by Francis Bacon.

  • Dec 17, 2013

You can say it in three words: curiosity, courage, generosity. Or you can say it in one word: Ripley.

  • Dec 14, 2013

DIA seeks financial help from foundations to save its art.

  • Dec 13, 2013

Key players line up to support Franklin School as ‘Kunsthalle’ arts space.

  • Dec 13, 2013

The exhibition is part of a year-long cultural program organized by the Italian government.

  • Dec 12, 2013

From English comedian Catherine Tate to SNL’s Chris Christie sketch, translation, or rather mistranslation, is inherently fraught with potential humor.

  • Dec 11, 2013

Are snowflakes really beautiful? Or is it our natural inclination to find beauty where there is only randomness and disorder?

  • Dec 10, 2013
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About Philip

Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post. He has been on staff at the Post since 1999, first as 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.