Philip Kennicott's Ballroom Panic is Wearing Thin
Philip Kennicott, a Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for The Washington Post, has increasingly focused his columns on President Trump, using cultural topics as a lens to critique his presidency. His recent article criticizes Trump's proposed White House ballroom as a symbol of monarchical ambition and detachment from the public. The author of this piece argues that Kennicott's preoccupation with Trump undermines his role as a cultural critic and reduces art and architecture to political cudgels.
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Philip Kennicott's Ballroom Panic is Wearing Thin John Sexton 1:20 PM | April 29, 2026 AP Photo/Alex Brandon Philip Kennicott, according to his bio, is "the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic of The Washington Post." He joined the Post in 1999 as a music critic and later became the art and architecture critic. He eventually graduated to the title of culture critic, which I guess means he gets to offer his opinion on anything loosely connected to art. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); But lately the only subject that seems to interest him is, you guessed it, President Trump.
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