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Philip Kennicott

Washington, D.C.

Senior Art and Architecture Critic at The Washington Post

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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  • 1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Philip Kennicott

    A brilliant young tenor gets a role worthy of his voice (washingtonpost.com) A brilliant young tenor gets a role worthy of his voice By Philip Kennicott 2025041417290000 Verdi's "Luisa Miller" contains one of Italian opera's greatest tenor arias, a heart-wrenching moment of loss and betrayal in the second act, when the hero is deceived into believing that his beloved Luisa is unfaithful.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Philip Kennicott

    Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” contains one of Italian opera’s greatest tenor arias, a heart-wrenching moment of loss and betrayal in the second act, when the hero is deceived into believing that his beloved Luisa is unfaithful. In “Quando le sere al placido,” a staple of recital programs and excerpts discs, the young and terribly brash Rodolfo remembers happier times, sitting beneath the stars with a girl he loves, despite the stern disapproval of his overbearing and ambitious father.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Philip Kennicott

    A Native American family visiting the Smithsonian Institution in the middle of the last century would have found its story told alongside rocks and fossils at the National Museum of Natural History, where the original Americans were an object of anthropological study, not subjects or actors with a culture, a past, and a unique understanding of the promise and hypocrisy of the larger story of America.

  • 2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Philip Kennicott

    The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump’s plan to edit history. Or the end. (washingtonpost.com) The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump’s plan to edit history. Or the end.

  • 2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Philip Kennicott

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Philip Kennicott
Philip Kennicott @PhilipKennicott
10 Apr 25

If the Smithsonian stands up, this could be a turning point in Trump's assault on the cultural infrastructure of America. https://t.co/EFWmoN1SwR

Philip Kennicott
Philip Kennicott @PhilipKennicott
4 Apr 25

About that Thomas Kinkade documentary and it's argument that he was somehow a misunderstood genius in the Andy Warhol mode: I don't believe any of it. https://t.co/1bwLnJSWEA

Philip Kennicott
Philip Kennicott @PhilipKennicott
2 Apr 25

RT @eilperin: For years Italians looked down on this medieval church. But it holds a secret to building for a hotter world. A stunning piec…