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Senior Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post Author of "Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning," published by Norton, February 2020

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Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Art and Architecture Critic of the Washington Post. He is also a two-time Pulitzer finalist (for editorial writing in 2000 and criticism in 2012), a former contributing editor to The New Republic, and a regular contributor to Opera News and Gramophone.

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Perspective | 'Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning': A son escapes into music after his m...

Perspective | 'Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning': A son escapes into music after his m...

Philip Kennicott is the chief art critic for The Washington Post. This article was adapted from his new book,…

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The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn't just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop

The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn't just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop

Once you pass security, which is as strict as at an airport, everyone inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum is frie…

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Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths

Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths

A photograph is never sufficiently proportional to truth. The truth - the full story, the context of things -…

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Smuggler | VQR Online

Smuggler | VQR Online

It must have been early autumn or late spring, because I know I was in school at the time, and the sun was st…

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America's Orchestras are in Crisis

America's Orchestras are in Crisis

In late June, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra came within days of foreclosure on its concert hall, an imposi…

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The 25 most influential works of American culture

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The 25 most influential works of American culture (washingtonpost.com) The 25 most influential works of American culture By Fritz Hahn; Philip Kennicott; Gene Park; Elahe Izadi; Shane O'Neill; Ashley Fetters Maloy; Ethan Beck; Geoff Edgers; Steven Johnson 2026071510010400 Are we a young country or an old one? By the standards of ancient Egypt, or China, we have been on the map for the smallest blip of time. But what an astonishing interval that has been.
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What a photo of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo reveals about his humanity, and our own

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What a photo of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo reveals about his humanity, and our own (washingtonpost.com) What a photo of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo reveals about his humanity, and our own By Philip Kennicott 2026071115350100 On Wednesday, in a short speech lasting nearly eight minutes, Ronaldo Salgado remembered his father with the seemingly mundane details of life.
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The only bias uncovered in the White House’s Smithsonian report is its own

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The only bias uncovered in the White House’s Smithsonian report is its own (washingtonpost.com) The only bias uncovered in the White House’s Smithsonian report is its own By Philip Kennicott 2026070621370300 More than a year after President Donald Trump announced his intention to rewrite history at the Smithsonian, the administration has issued a lengthy, 160-page report, with more than 500 footnotes, on its flagship museum.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Manual and electric.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Addison DeWitt, but I'm not proud of that. (There aren't many admirable fictional critics.)

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Being curious.