About
Philip Kennicott
Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Senior 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. His 2015 essay, “Smuggler” was a finalist for the National Magazine Award and anthologized in that year’s volume of “Best American Essays.” He lives in Washington, D.C.
While his mother was dying from cancer, Philip Kennicott began to listen to Bach's music obsessively, finding that it enabled him both to experience her deat...
The key to being an art critic is thinking in public, according to Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Philip Kennicott. He tells Libby Casey what it takes to pause and reflect in a noisy world of 24-hour news.