Philip Kennicott

The giant UFC arena towering over the White House makes it look a bit as if the president’s house has been placed in the dome of a snow globe. Or

Philip Kennicott On Wednesday, in a short speech lasting nearly eight minutes, Ronaldo Salgado remembered his father with the seemingly mundane details of life.

A decade-by-decade look at the books, music, art and ideas that shaped 250 years of society.

The National Gallery of Art is taking a low-key approach to celebrating the country's 250th birthday.

The warning signs the Trump administration has ordered placed along walkways outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History will attest

A lesser-known semiquincentennial project occupies a central square in the nation's capital.

Renovations are welcome. But after two years, the Kennedy Center may end up right back where it started: in a self-imposed quagmire.

The centerpiece orchestra announced its season months later than usual, at venues away from its longtime home.

A State Department attempt to sell an innocuous painting by Kehinde Wiley, painter of a famous Obama portrait and a difficult artist to defend, is the loudest of dog whistles.

By Philip Kennicott washington post The Trump administration has made a canny but alarming decision to attack the work of artist Kehinde Wiley.