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Philip Kennicott is culture critic of The Washington Post where he writes frequently about architecture, film, museums and general cultural subjects. He is also a monthly columnist for Gramophone and a frequent writer, speaker and blogger on the arts. This website, intricately linked to his day job, is a platform for things too long, too short  or too odd for newspapers or magazines. Welcome. We’ve made subscription easy, and welcome your comments. To access the complete blog, just click on my name at the top of the page.

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  • Paul Nejelski

    What a pleasant surprise to find your new (?) blog.

    The review of the WNO Turandot is really excellent; my wife and I will being seeing it tomarrow. Your comments are very helpful. I agree, Sabina Cvilak is a wonderful singer/actor — hope WNO will bring her back often.

    Good luck in your blog. I hope you and Anne Midgette will hyperlink each other in the future.

  • What a great blog, its a pleasure to read. Thank you!

  • charles riley

    what a wonderful feature on style for the current opera news–a model of the kind of think piece that the magazine (and readers like me) needcharles riley

  • Are you serious about this Obama Joker poster being about race? You have to be joking. Your argument is a looooong stretch at best, but only reveals your and the left’s obsession with race. Get over it. It’s not about his race. It’s about his politics. He’s marching this country down a Marxist path that threatens the individual and his liberty; the individual liberty upon which this country was built. It would be the same if Obama was the whitest whitey that ever was. It was the same when George Bush started this statist nonsense. Obama’s policies = bad for the country and for individuals who have to live under them, excluding Obama and Congress, of course.

  • although you have nice hair, perhaps a more stylish cut, and definitely lose the goatee, it looks kinda silly.
    and the lime green shirt, meh…
    kinda boring.
    you could look better with a makeover, imho

  • [...] poster campaign is being conducted anonymously, so its specific goal is unknown. But culture critic Philip Kennicott of the Washington Post thinks the campaign is racially motivated, drawing on fears of inner-city [...]

  • Great blog! Can’t believe I just found it.
    Was Neo From Aug 6 serious?!! Why would anyone be so self important to think their opinion matters about someones looks? ugh
    Curious what you think about the bass-baritone Mark S. Doss (www.msdoss.com) The artist not the website.


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